Psalms 42:9-10
9 I will pray ▼
▼tn The cohortative form indicates the psalmist’s resolve.
to God, my high ridge: ▼▼tn This metaphor pictures God as a rocky, relatively inaccessible summit, where one would be able to find protection from enemies. See 1 Sam 23:25, 28; Pss 18:2; 31:3.
“Why do you ignore ▼
▼tn Or “forget.”
me? Why must I walk around mourning ▼
because my enemies oppress me?”
10 My enemies’ taunts cut me to the bone, ▼
▼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.”
as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” ▼
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