Text -- Psalms 61:1-3 (NET)

Psalm 61

61:1 For the music director; to be played on a stringed instrument; written by David. O God, hear my cry for help! Pay attention to my prayer! 61:2 From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to an inaccessible rocky summit! 61:3 Indeed, you are my shelter, a strong tower that protects me from the enemy.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 61:1

¹ sn Psalm 61. The psalmist cries out for help and expresses his confidence that God will protect him.

NET Notes: Psa 61:2

¹ tn Heb “from the end of the earth.” This may indicate (1) the psalmist is exiled in a distant land, or (2) it may be hyperbolic (the psalmist feels alienated from God’s presence, as if he were in a distant land).

² tn Heb “while my heart faints.”

³ tn The imperfect verbal form here expresses the psalmist’s wish or prayer.

⁴ tn Heb “on to a rocky summit [that] is higher than I.”

NET Notes: Psa 61:3

¹ tn Or “for.”

² tn Or “have been.”

³ tn Heb “a strong tower from the face of an enemy.”