OET interlinear PSA 88:5

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

I am abandoned among the dead

(Some words not found in UHB: counted with go_down_of pit am like,a_man not strength )

People treating the writer as if he were already dead is spoken of as if he were a corpse that they left unburied. Alternate translation: “I am left alone as if I were dead”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

I am like the dead who lie in the grave

(Some words not found in UHB: counted with go_down_of pit am like,a_man not strength )

The writer feeling like people and God have abandoned him speaks about himself as if he were already a dead person lying in a grave.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj

the dead who lie

(Some words not found in UHB: counted with go_down_of pit am like,a_man not strength )

The nominal adjective “the dead” can be stated as an adjective. Alternate translation: “a dead person who lies” or “dead people who lie”

about whom you care no more

(Some words not found in UHB: counted with go_down_of pit am like,a_man not strength )

Alternate translation: “who no longer receive your care” or “people you have stopped caring about”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

they are cut off from your power

(Some words not found in UHB: counted with go_down_of pit am like,a_man not strength )

God no longer using his power to help dead people is spoken of as if God literally cut him off or removed him from his power. Alternate translation: “you no longer use your power to help them”