# General Information:

After speaking about God, Asaph speaks to God in verse 4 and then returns to speaking about God.

# You held my eyes open

"I said to God, 'You held my eyes open.'"

# held my eyes open

Open eyes is a metonym for being unable to sleep. AT: "kept me from sleeping" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

# the days of old, about times long past

If necessary, "days of old" and "times long past" can be combined. AT: "about things that happened a very long time ago" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/trouble]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/time]]