Psalms 55:18
18 He will rescue ▼
▼tn The perfect verbal form is here used rhetorically to indicate that the action is certain to take place (the so-called perfect of certitude).
me and protect me from those who attack me, ▼▼tn Heb “he will redeem in peace my life from [those who] draw near to me.”
even though ▼
▼tn Or “for.”
they greatly outnumber me. ▼▼tn Heb “among many they are against me.” For other examples of the preposition עִמָּד (ʿimmad) used in the sense of “at, against,” see HALOT 842 s.v.; BDB 767 s.v.; IBHS 219 §11.2.14b.
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