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In my distress[a] I cried out to the Lord.
The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 118:5 tn Heb “from the distress.” The noun מֵצַר (metsar, “straits; distress”) occurs only here and in Lam 1:3. In Ps 116:3 מֵצַר should probably be emended to מְצָדֵי (metsade, “snares of”).
  2. Psalm 118:5 tn Heb “the Lord answered me in a wide open place.”