translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET study note

text: . The psalmist expresses his intense desire to be in God’s presence and confidently affirms that God will judge his enemies.


text: According to the psalm superscription David wrote the psalm while in the “wilderness of Judah.” Perhaps this refers to the period described in 1 Sam 23-24 or to the incident mentioned in 2 Sam 15:23 .


text: I will lift up my hands . Lifting up one’s hands toward God was a gesture of prayer (see Ps 28:2 ; Lam 2:19 ) or respect ( Ps 119:48 ).


text: The depths of the earth refers here to the underworld dwelling place of the dead (see Ezek 26:20; 31:14, 16, 18; 32:18, 24 ). See L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World , 167.


text: The psalmist probably refers to himself in the third person here.