subject of the statement, “like one nursed” is now pointed “like the one nursed,” and “with” now has a suffix and changes its nuance. “With me” (ʿālay) thus has the kind of meaning it has in 42:4, 5, 6, 11 [5, 6, 7, 12]; 142:3 [4]; 143:4, “to give pathos to the expression of an emotion, by emphasizing the person who is its subject, and who, as it were, feels it acting upon him.”18 131:3. The exhortation. The suppliant commends to the people the stance that has been described in v. 2. 3 Wait for