Verse 14
Like - a swallow "Like the swallow" - כסיס kesis ; so read two MSS., Theodot., and Hieron.
Mine eyes fail - For דלו dallu the Septuagint read כלו calu , εξελιπον . Compare Psalm 69:4 ; Psalm 119:82 , Psalm 119:123 ; Lamentations 2:11 ; Lamentations 4:17 , in the Hebrew and in the Septuagint.
O Lord "O Lord" - For יהוה Jehovah , thirty MSS. and eight editions read אדני Adonai .
Undertake for me "Contend for me" - עשקה ashekah , with ש shin , Jarchi: this sense of the word is established by Genesis 26:20 ; : "He called the name of the well עשק esek , because they strove with him:" התעשקו hithasseku , equivalent to יריבו yaribu , at the beginning of the verse.
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