Psalm 141:8-10

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Psalm 141:8 tn Heb “my eyes [are] toward you.”
2. Psalm 141:8 tn Heb “do not lay bare my life.” Only here is the Piel form of the verb collocated with the term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “life”). In Isa 53:12 the Lord’s servant “lays bare (the Hiphil form of the verb is used) his life to death.”
3. Psalm 141:9 tn Heb “and the traps of the doers of evil.”
4. Psalm 141:10 tn The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive of prayer. Another option is to translate, “the wicked will fall.”
5. Psalm 141:10 tn Heb “his.”
6. Psalm 141:10 tn Heb “at the same [that] I, until I pass by.” Another option is to take יַחַד (yakhad) with the preceding line, “let the wicked fall together into their own nets.”