[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.
[122:9] 4 tn Heb “I will seek good for you.” The psalmist will seek Jerusalem’s “good” through prayer.
