Psalms 30:8

The tense in the original is inadequately represented by a simple perfect, though its precise force is not easy to define. It may express the frequent repetition of the prayer, or, like a historic present, it may set the action vividly before us as in actual progress (App., Note IV); or possibly throwing himself back into the past, the Psalmist gives the words of his resolution: [I said,] Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call(Psalms 28:1); yea, unto the Lord(the best attested reading is Adonai) will I make supplication(Psalms 142:1).