Psalms 6:6

6:6 I am exhausted as I groan;

all night long I drench my bed in tears; ¹ 

my tears saturate the cushion beneath me. ² 

Psalms 13:1-3

Psalm 13 ³ 

For the music director; a psalm of David.

13:1 How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me? ⁴ 

How long will you pay no attention to me? ⁵ 

13:2 How long must I worry, ⁶ 

and suffer in broad daylight? ⁷ 

How long will my enemy gloat over me? ⁸ 

13:3 Look at me! ⁹  Answer me, O Lord my God!

Revive me, ¹⁰  or else I will die! ¹¹ 

Psalms 22:2

22:2 My God, I cry out during the day,

but you do not answer,

and during the night my prayers do not let up. ¹² 

Hebrews 5:7

5:7 During his earthly life ¹³  Christ ¹⁴  offered ¹⁵  both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

[6:6]  ¹ tn Heb “I cause to swim through all the night my bed.”

[6:6]  ² tn Heb “with my tears my bed I flood/melt.”

[13:1]  ³ sn Psalm 13. The psalmist, who is close to death, desperately pleads for God’s deliverance and affirms his trust in God’s faithfulness.

[13:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “will you forget me continually.”

[13:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “will you hide your face from me.”

[13:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “How long will I put counsel in my being?”

[13:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “[with] grief in my heart by day.”

[13:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “be exalted over me.” Perhaps one could translate, “How long will my enemy defeat me?”

[13:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “see.”

[13:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Give light [to] my eyes.” The Hiphil of אוּר (’ur), when used elsewhere with “eyes” as object, refers to the law of God giving moral enlightenment (Ps 19:8), to God the creator giving literal eyesight to all people (Prov 29:13), and to God giving encouragement to his people (Ezra 9:8). Here the psalmist pictures himself as being on the verge of death. His eyes are falling shut and, if God does not intervene soon, he will “fall asleep” for good.

[13:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “or else I will sleep [in?] the death.” Perhaps the statement is elliptical, “I will sleep [the sleep] of death,” or “I will sleep [with the sleepers in] death.”

[22:2]  ¹² tn Heb “there is no silence to me.”

[5:7]  ¹³ tn Grk “in the days of his flesh.”

[5:7]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Christ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:7]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “who…having offered,” continuing the description of Christ from Heb 5:5-6.