Psalms 22:14

22:14 My strength drains away like water; ¹ 

all my bones are dislocated;

my heart ²  is like wax;

it melts away inside me.

Psalms 61:2

61:2 From the most remote place on earth ³ 

I call out to you in my despair. ⁴ 

Lead me ⁵  up to an inaccessible rocky summit! ⁶ 

Psalms 102:4

102:4 My heart is parched ⁷  and withered like grass,

for I am unable ⁸  to eat food. ⁹ 

Psalms 143:4

143:4 My strength leaves me; ¹⁰ 

I am absolutely shocked. ¹¹ 

Mark 14:33-36

14:33 He took Peter, James, ¹²  and John with him, and became very troubled and distressed. 14:34 He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay alert.” 14:35 Going a little farther, he threw himself to the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour would pass from him. 14:36 He said, “Abba, ¹³  Father, all things are possible for you. Take this cup ¹⁴  away from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

¹ tn Heb “like water I am poured out.”

² sn The heart is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s strength and courage.

³ 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).

⁴ tn Heb “while my heart faints.”

⁵ tn The imperfect verbal form here expresses the psalmist’s wish or prayer.

⁶ tn Heb “on to a rocky summit [that] is higher than I.”

⁷ tn Heb “struck, attacked.”

⁸ tn Heb “I forget.”

⁹ sn I am unable to eat food. During his time of mourning, the psalmist refrained from eating. In the following verse he describes metaphorically the physical effects of fasting.

¹⁰ tn Heb “my spirit grows faint.”

¹¹ tn Heb “in my midst my heart is shocked.” For a similar use of the Hitpolel of שָׁמֵם (shamem), see Isa 59:16; 63:5.

¹² tn Grk “and James,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

¹³ tn The word means “Father” in Aramaic.

¹⁴ sn This cup alludes to the wrath of God that Jesus would experience (in the form of suffering and death) for us. See Ps 11:6; 75:8-9; Isa 51:17, 19, 22 for this figure.