Text -- Psalms 90:13 (NET)

90:13 Turn back toward us, O Lord! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 90:13

¹ tn Heb “Return, O Lord! How long?”

² tn Elsewhere the Niphal of נָחַם (nakham) + the preposition עַל (’al) + a personal object has the nuance “be comforted concerning [the personal object’s death]” (see 2 Sam 13:39; Jer 31:15). However, here the context seems to demand “feel sorrow for,” “have pity on.” In Deut 32:36 and Ps 135:14, where “servants” is also the object of the preposition, this idea is expressed with the Hitpael form of the verb.