39:2 I was stone silent; 1
I held back the urge to speak. 2
My frustration grew; 3
22:2 My God, I cry out during the day,
but you do not answer,
and during the night my prayers do not let up. 4
For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of David.
62:1 For God alone I patiently wait; 6
he is the one who delivers me. 7
For the music director; a psalm of David, a song.
65:1 Praise awaits you, 9 O God, in Zion.
Vows made to you are fulfilled.
1 tn Heb “I was mute [with] silence.”
2 tn Heb “I was quiet from good.” He kept quiet, resisting the urge to find emotional release and satisfaction by voicing his lament.
3 tn Heb “and my pain was stirred up.” Emotional pain is in view here.
4 tn Heb “there is no silence to me.”
7 sn Psalm 62. The psalmist expresses his unwavering confidence in God’s justice and in his ability to protect his people.
8 tn Heb “only for God [is] there silence [to] my soul.”
9 tn Heb “from him [is] my deliverance.”
10 sn Psalm 65. The psalmist praises God because he forgives sin and blesses his people with an abundant harvest.
11 tn Heb “for you, silence, praise.” Many prefer to emend the noun דֻּמִיָּה (dumiyyah, “silence”) to a participle דּוֹמִיָּה (domiyyah), from the root דָּמָה (damah, “be silent”), understood here in the sense of “wait.”