31:2 Listen to me! 1
Quickly deliver me!
Be my protector and refuge, 2
a stronghold where I can be safe! 3
102:2 Do not ignore me in my time of trouble! 4
Listen to me! 5
When I call out to you, quickly answer me!
1 tn Heb “turn toward me your ear.”
2 tn Heb “become for me a rocky summit of refuge.”
3 tn Heb “a house of strongholds to deliver me.”
4 tn Heb “do not hide your face from me in the day of my trouble.” The idiom “to hide the face” can mean “to ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “to reject” (see Pss 29:7; 30:7; 88:14).
5 tn Heb “turn toward me your ear.”