35:4 May those who seek my life be embarrassed and humiliated!
May those who plan to harm me be turned back and ashamed! 1
70:2 May those who are trying to take my life
be embarrassed and ashamed! 2
May those who want to harm me
be turned back and ashamed! 3
70:3 May those who say, “Aha! Aha!”
be driven back 4 and disgraced! 5
129:5 May all who hate Zion
be humiliated and turned back!
42:17 Those who trust in idols
will turn back and be utterly humiliated, 6
those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”
1 tn The four prefixed verbal forms in this verse are understood as jussives. The psalmist is calling judgment down on his enemies. See also the distinct jussive form in v. 6.
2 tn Heb “may they be embarrassed and ashamed, the ones seeking my life.” Ps 40:14 has “together” after “ashamed,” and “to snatch it away” after “my life.”
3 tn The four prefixed verbal forms in this verse are understood as jussives. The psalmist is calling judgment down on his enemies.
4 tn The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive in this imprecation.
5 tn Heb “May they be turned back according to their shame, those who say, ‘Aha! Aha!’” Ps 40:15 has the verb “humiliated” instead of “turned back” and adds “to me” after “say.”
6 tn Heb “be ashamed with shame”; ASV, NASB “be utterly put to shame.”