Footnotes

1. Psalm 102:2 tn Heb “do not hide your face from me in the day of my trouble.” The idiom “to hide the face” can mean “to ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “to reject” (see Pss 29:7; 30:7; 88:14).
2. Psalm 102:2 tn Heb “turn toward me your ear.”
3. Psalm 102:3 tn Heb “for my days come to an end in smoke.”
4. Psalm 102:3 tn The Hebrew noun קֵד (qed, “fireplace”) occurs only here, in Isa 33:14 (where it refers to the fire itself), and perhaps in Lev 6:2.
5. Psalm 102:4 tn Heb “struck, attacked.”
6. Psalm 102:4 tn Heb “I forget.”
7. Psalm 102:4 sn I am unable to eat food. During his time of mourning, the psalmist refrained from eating. In the following verse he describes metaphorically the physical effects of fasting.