## Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and listen to me ## (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]]) ## I am like a foreigner with you, a refugee ## AT: "I am a complete stranger to you." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]]) ## Turn your gaze from me so that I may smile again before I die. ## The writer is expressing how he feels like he is being punished by God, and, in his discouragement, wants God to stop dealing with him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])