6:10 May all my enemies be humiliated 1 and absolutely terrified! 2
May they turn back and be suddenly humiliated!
35:26 May those who want to harm me be totally embarrassed and ashamed! 3
May those who arrogantly taunt me be covered with shame and humiliation! 4
40:14 May those who are trying to snatch away my life
be totally embarrassed and ashamed! 5
May those who want to harm me
be turned back and ashamed! 6
45:16 They will all be ashamed and embarrassed;
those who fashion idols will all be humiliated. 7
12:2 Many of those who sleep
in the dusty ground will awake –
some to everlasting life,
and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. 8
1 tn The four prefixed verbal forms in this verse are understood as jussives. The psalmist concludes his prayer with an imprecation, calling judgment down on his enemies.
2 tn Heb “and may they be very terrified.” The psalmist uses the same expression in v. 3 to describe the terror he was experiencing. Now he asks the
1 tn Heb “may they be embarrassed and ashamed together, the ones who rejoice over my harm.”
2 tn Heb “may they be clothed with shame and humiliation, the ones who magnify [themselves] against me.” The prefixed verbal forms in v. 26 are understood as jussives (see vv. 24b-25, where the negative particle אַל (’al) appears before the prefixed verbal forms, indicating they are jussives). The psalmist is calling down judgment on his enemies.
1 tn Heb “may they be embarrassed and ashamed together, the ones seeking my life to snatch it away.”
2 tn The four prefixed verbal forms in this verse (“may those…be…embarrassed and ashamed…may those…be turned back and ashamed”) are understood as jussives. The psalmist is calling judgment down on his enemies.
1 tn “together they will walk in humiliation, the makers of images.”
1 sn This verse is the only undisputed reference to a literal resurrection found in the Hebrew Bible.