Psalm 56:2–3

56:2 Those who anticipate my defeat4 attack me all day long.

Indeed,5 many are fighting against me, O Exalted One.6

56:3 When7 I am afraid,

I trust in you.

4	tn Heb “to those who watch me [with evil intent].” See also Pss 5:8; 27:11; 54:5; 59:10.
5	tn Or “for.”
6	tn Some take the Hebrew term מָרוֹם (marom, “on high; above”) as an adverb modifying the preceding participle and translate, “proudly” (cf. NASB; NIV “in their pride”). The present translation assumes the term is a divine title here. The Lord is pictured as enthroned “on high” in Ps 92:8. (Note the substantival use of the term in Isa 24:4 and see C. A. Briggs and E. G. Briggs (Psalms [ICC], 2:34), who prefer to place the term at the beginning of the next verse.)
7	tn Heb “[in] a day.”