unfoldingWord_en_tn/psa/077/004.md

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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)