31:16 Smile 1 on your servant!
Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
44:15 All day long I feel humiliated 2
and am overwhelmed with shame, 3
44:24 Why do you look the other way, 4
and ignore 5 the way we are oppressed and mistreated? 6
119:135 Smile 7 on your servant!
Teach me your statutes!
1 tn Heb “cause your face to shine.”
2 tn Heb “all the day my humiliation [is] in front of me.”
3 tn Heb “and the shame of my face covers me.”
3 tn Heb “Why do you hide your face?” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).
4 tn Or “forget.”
5 tn Heb “our oppression and our affliction.”
4 tn Heb “cause your face to shine.”