Discovery BoxPsalms 142:3-5
Context142:3 Even when my strength leaves me, 1
you watch my footsteps. 2
In the path where I walk
they have hidden a trap for me.
142:4 Look to the right and see!
No one cares about me. 3
I have nowhere to run; 4
no one is concerned about my life. 5
142:5 I cry out to you, O Lord;
I say, “You are my shelter,
my security 6 in the land of the living.”
[142:3] 1 tn Heb “my spirit grows faint.”
[142:3] 2 tn Heb “you know my path.”
[142:4] 3 tn Heb “there is no one who recognizes me.”
[142:4] 4 tn Heb “ a place of refuge perishes from me.”
[142:4] 5 tn Heb “there is no one who seeks for the sake of my life.”
[142:5] 5 tn Heb “my portion.” The psalmist compares the
