Footnotes

1. Psalm 102:12 tn Heb “sit” (i.e., sit enthroned, see Ps 9:7). The imperfect verbal form highlights the generalization.
2. Psalm 102:12 tn Heb “and your remembrance [is] for a generation and a generation.”
3. Psalm 102:13 tn The imperfect verbal forms are understood as expressing the psalmist’s confidence in God’s intervention. Another option is to take them as expressing the psalmist’s request or wish, “You, rise up and have compassion!”
4. Psalm 102:14 tn Or “for.”
5. Psalm 102:14 tn The Poel of חָנַן (khanan) occurs only here and in Prov 14:21, where it refers to having compassion on the poor.
6. Psalm 102:14 tn Heb “her dust,” probably referring to the dust of the city’s rubble.