Like - a swallow "Like the swallow" - כסיס kesis ; so read two MSS., Theodot., and Hieron.
Mine eyes fail - For דלו dallu the Septuagint read כלו calu, εξελιπον . Compare Psalm 69:4; Psalm 119:82, Psalm 119:123; Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 4:17, in the Hebrew and in the Septuagint.
O Lord "O Lord" - For יהוה Jehovah, thirty MSS. and eight editions read אדני Adonai .
Undertake for me "Contend for me" - עשקה ashekah, with ש shin, Jarchi: this sense of the word is established by Genesis 26:20; : "He called the name of the well עשק esek, because they strove with him:" התעשקו hithasseku, equivalent to יריבו yaribu, at the beginning of the verse.
“I said
In the cutting off of my days,
I shall go to the gates of the grave:
I am deprived of the residue of my years.
PK 343.1
“I said,
I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of
the living;
I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the
world.
PK 343.2
“Mine age is departed,
And is removed from me as a shepherd's tent:
PK 343.3