Text -- Psalms 118:5 (NET)

118:5 In my distress I cried out to the Lord. The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 118:5

¹ tn Heb “from the distress.” The noun מֵצַר (metsar, “straits; distress”) occurs only here and in Lam 1:3. In Ps 116:3 מצר should probably be emended to מְצָדֵי (mÿtsadey, “snares of”).

² tn Heb “the Lord answered me in a wide open place.”