[39:2] 1 tn Heb “I was mute [with] silence.”
[39:2] 2 tn Heb “I was quiet from good.” He kept quiet, resisting the urge to find emotional release and satisfaction by voicing his lament.
[39:2] 3 tn Heb “and my pain was stirred up.” Emotional pain is in view here.
[39:9] 4 tn Heb “because you acted.” The psalmist has in mind God’s disciplinary measures (see vv. 10-13).
