Psalms 42:10

42:10 My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, ¹ 

as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” ² 

Psalms 56:9

56:9 My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; ³ 

I know that God is on my side. ⁴ 

Psalms 61:6

61:6 Give the king long life!

Make his lifetime span several generations! ⁵ 

[42:10]  ¹ tc Heb “with a shattering in my bones my enemies taunt me.” A few medieval Hebrew mss and Symmachus’ Greek version read “like” instead of “with.”

[42:10]  ² sn “Where is your God?” The enemies ask this same question in v. 3.

[56:9]  ³ tn Heb “then my enemies will turn back in the day I cry out.” The Hebrew particle אָז (’az, “then”) is probably used here to draw attention to the following statement.

[56:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “this I know, that God is for me.”

[61:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “days upon days of the king add, his years like generation and generation.”