Text -- Psalms 57:6 (NET)

57:6 They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it! (Selah)

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 57:6

¹ tn Heb “for my feet.”

² tn Heb “my life bends low.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).

³ tn Heb “before me.”

⁴ tn The perfect form is used rhetorically here to express the psalmist’s certitude. The demise of the enemies is so certain that he can speak of it as already accomplished.