51:15 O Lord, give me the words! 1
Then my mouth will praise you. 2
109:2 For they say cruel and deceptive things to me;
they lie to me. 3
1 tn Heb “open my lips.” The imperfect verbal form is used here to express the psalmist’s wish or request.
2 tn Heb “and my mouth will declare your praise.”
3 tn Heb “for a mouth of evil and a mouth of deceit against me they open, they speak with me [with] a tongue of falsehood.”