58:7 I want you 1 to share your food with the hungry
and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. 2
When you see someone naked, clothe him!
Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood! 3
For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a well-written song 5 by David.
55:1 Listen, O God, to my prayer!
Do not ignore 6 my appeal for mercy!
1 tn Heb “Is it not?” The rhetorical question here expects a positive answer, “It is!”
2 tn Heb “and afflicted [ones], homeless [ones] you should bring [into] a house.” On the meaning of מְרוּדִים (mÿrudim, “homeless”) see HALOT 633 s.v. *מָרוּד.
3 tn Heb “and from your flesh do not hide yourself.”
4 sn Psalm 55. The suffering and oppressed author laments that one of his friends has betrayed him, but he is confident that God will vindicate him by punishing his deceitful enemies.
5 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term מַשְׂכִּיל (maskil) is uncertain. See the note on the phrase “well-written song” in the superscription of Ps 52.
6 tn Heb “hide yourself from.”