“accept me.” “The Hebrew is an idiom, “lift up my face.” The intimacy in this section is intense: more literally, “I will cover [the anger of] his face with the present that goes ahead of my face; and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will lift up my face.” To lift up someone’s face was to accept them: the person was downcast or bowed down in your presence, and by lifting up the face the person knew they were accepted.