2 Samuel 22:29

Footnotes

1. 74 Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.
2. 75 Many medieval Hebrew , some , and the support reading תָּאִיר (ta’ir, “you cause to shine”) before the words “my lamp.” See Ps 18:28. The metaphor, which likens the Lord to a lamp or light, pictures him as the psalmist’s source of life. For other examples of “lamp” used in this way, see Job 18:6; 21:17; Prov 13:9; 20:20; 24:20. For other examples of “light” as a symbol for life, see Job 3:20; 33:30; Ps 56:13.
3. 76 The Lucianic Greek recension and understand this verb to be second person rather than third person as in the . But this is probably the result of reading the preceding word “Lord” as a vocative under the influence of the vocative in the first part of the verse.
4. 77 Heb “my darkness.”