59:2 Deliver me from evildoers! 1
Rescue me from violent men! 2
59:3 For look, they wait to ambush me; 3
powerful men stalk 4 me,
but not because I have rebelled or sinned, O Lord. 5
1 tn Heb “from the workers of wickedness.”
2 tn Heb “from men of bloodshed.”
3 tn Heb “my life.”
4 tn The Hebrew verb is from the root גּוּר (gur), which means “to challenge, attack” in Isa 54:15 and “to stalk” (with hostile intent) in Ps 56:8.
5 sn The point is that the psalmist’s enemies have no justifiable reason for attacking him. He has neither rebelled or sinned against the