Psalms 5:3

5:3 Lord, in the morning ¹  you will hear ²  me; ³ 

in the morning I will present my case to you ⁴  and then wait expectantly for an answer. ⁵ 

Psalms 35:14

35:14 I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. ⁶ 

I bowed down ⁷  in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother. ⁸ 

Psalms 131:2

131:2 Indeed ⁹  I am composed and quiet, ¹⁰ 

like a young child carried by its mother; ¹¹ 

I am content like the young child I carry. ¹² 

[5:3]  ¹ sn In the morning is here viewed as the time of prayer (Pss 59:16; 88:13) and/or of deliverance (Ps 30:5).

[5:3]  ² tn The imperfect is here understood in a specific future sense; the psalmist is expressing his confidence that God will be willing to hear his request. Another option is to understand the imperfect as expressing the psalmist’s wish or request. In this case one could translate, “Lord, in the morning hear me.”

[5:3]  ³ tn Heb “my voice.”

[5:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will arrange for you.” Some understand a sacrifice or offering as the implied object (cf. NEB “I set out my morning sacrifice”). The present translation assumes that the implied object is the psalmist’s case/request. See Isa 44:7.

[5:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “and I will watch.”

[35:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “like a friend, like a brother to me I walked about.”

[35:14]  ⁷ sn I bowed down. Bowing down was a posture for mourning. See Ps 38:6.

[35:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “like mourning for a mother [in] sorrow I bowed down.”

[131:2]  ¹¹ tn Or “but.”

[131:2]  ¹² tn Heb “I make level and make quiet my soul.”

[131:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “like a weaned [one] upon his mother.”

[131:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “like the weaned [one] upon me, my soul.”