42:9 I will pray 1 to God, my high ridge: 2
“Why do you ignore 3 me?
Why must I walk around mourning 4
because my enemies oppress me?”
1 tn The cohortative form indicates the psalmist’s resolve.
2 tn This metaphor pictures God as a rocky, relatively inaccessible summit, where one would be able to find protection from enemies. See 1 Sam 23:25, 28; Pss 18:2; 31:3.
3 tn Or “forget.”
4 sn Walk around mourning. See Ps 38:6 for a similar idea.