² tn Heb “he set up a throne for the mother of the king.”

³ tn Heb “hidden.” The LXX paraphrases: “an untimely birth, proceeding from his mother’s womb.”

² sn Your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.

² tn Heb “from the womb of my mother you [have been] my God.”

³ tn Heb “like mourning for a mother [in] sorrow I bowed down.”

² tn Heb “against the son of your mother you give a fault.”

¹ tn Heb “one sucking,” i.e., still being nursed by his mother.

³ tn Heb “from the inner parts of my mother he mentioned my name.”

³ tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).

² tn The Hebrew term גְּבִירָה (gÿvirah) can denote “queen” or “queen mother” depending on the context. Here the latter is indicated, since Maacah was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah.

⁵ tn Heb “grief of his mother.” The noun “grief” is in construct, and “mother” is an objective genitive. The saying declares that the consequences of wisdom or folly affects the parents.

¹ sn A quotation from Gen 2:24. The “two” refers to husband and wife, not father and mother mentioned in the previous verse. See the tc note on “mother” in v. mother%27s&tab=notes" ver="">7 for discussion.

³ tn Heb “perhaps I will be built from her.” Sarai hopes to have a family established through this surrogate mother.

² tn Heb “his mother.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “she” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “The nakedness of your father and [i.e., even] the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover.”

² tn Heb “father,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.

² tn The expression “from my mother’s womb” is obviously hyperbolic. It is a way of saying “all his life.”

² sn I will find shelter in the protection of your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.

¹ tn Heb “and I am estranged to my brothers, and a foreigner to the sons of my mother.”

⁶ tn Heb “of.” The noun אִמֶּךָ (’immekha, “of your mother”) may be classified as a genitive of source.