translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET study note

text: . The author asks the Lord to deliver him from his enemies. He confesses his sin and recognizes that the crisis he faces is the result of divine discipline. Yet he begs the Lord not to reject him.


text: The reference to wounds may be an extension of the metaphorical language of v. 2 . The psalmist pictures himself as one whose flesh is ripped and torn by arrows.


text: I am like a deaf man…like a mute . The psalmist is like a deaf mute; he is incapable of defending himself and is vulnerable to his enemies’ deception (see v. 14 ).