9:13 when they prayed: 1
“Have mercy on me, 2 Lord!
See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, 3
O one who can snatch me away 4 from the gates of death!
9:14 Then I will 5 tell about all your praiseworthy acts; 6
in the gates of Daughter Zion 7 I will rejoice because of your deliverance.” 8
1 tn The words “when they prayed,” though not represented in the Hebrew text, are supplied in the translation for clarification. The petition in vv. 13-14 is best understood as the cry for help which the oppressed offered to God when the nations threatened. The
2 tn Or “show me favor.”
3 tn Heb “see my misery from the ones who hate me.”
4 tn Heb “one who lifts me up.”
5 tn Or “so that I might.”
6 tn Heb “all your praise.” “Praise” stands by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt it.
7 sn Daughter Zion is an idiomatic title for Jerusalem. It appears frequently in the prophets, but only here in the psalms.
8 tn Heb “in your deliverance.”