Text -- Psalms 141:9-10 (NET)

141:9 Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set. 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 141:9

¹ tn Heb “and the traps of the doers of evil.”

NET Notes: Psa 141:10

¹ tn The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive of prayer. Another option is to translate, “the wicked will fall.”

² tn Heb “his.”

³ tn Heb “at the same [that] I, until I pass by.” Another option is to take יַחַד (yakhad) with the preceding line, “let the wicked fall together into their own nets.”