Text -- Psalms 143:7 (NET)

143:7 Answer me quickly, Lord! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 143:7

¹ tn Heb “my spirit is failing.”

² tn Heb “do not hide your face from me.” The idiom “hide the face” (1) can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or (2) can carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).

³ tn Heb “I will be equal with.”

⁴ tn Heb “the pit.” The Hebrew noun בּוֹר (bor, “pit; cistern”) is sometimes used of the grave and/or the realm of the dead. See Ps 28:1.