Psa 42:9-10 | NET2full | STEP | I will pray to God , my high ridge : “ Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

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 ^{▼▼sn Walk around mourning. See Ps 38:6 for a similar idea.}
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?” ^{▼▼sn “Where is your God?” The enemies ask this same question in v. 3.}