40:14 May those who are trying to snatch away my life
be totally embarrassed and ashamed! 1
May those who want to harm me
be turned back and ashamed! 2
41:11 Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated;
your adversaries 3 will be reduced to nothing 4 and perish.
45:16 They will all be ashamed and embarrassed;
those who fashion idols will all be humiliated. 5
45:17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; 6
you will never again be ashamed or humiliated. 7
50:7 But the sovereign Lord helps me,
so I am not humiliated.
For that reason I am steadfastly resolved; 8
I know I will not be put to shame.
54:4 Don’t be afraid, for you will not be put to shame!
Don’t be intimidated, 9 for you will not be humiliated!
You will forget about the shame you experienced in your youth;
you will no longer remember the disgrace of your abandonment. 10
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.
3 tn Heb “the men of your strife”; NASB “those who contend with you.”
4 tn Heb “like nothing”; NAB “come to nought.”
5 tn “together they will walk in humiliation, the makers of images.”
7 tn Heb “Israel will be delivered by the Lord [with] a permanent deliverance.”
8 tn Heb “you will not be ashamed and you will not be humiliated for ages of future time.”
9 tn Heb “Therefore I set my face like flint.”
11 tn Or “embarrassed”; NASB “humiliated…disgraced.”
12 tn Another option is to translate, “the disgrace of our widowhood” (so NRSV). However, the following context (vv. 6-7) refers to Zion’s husband, the Lord, abandoning her, not dying. This suggests that an אַלְמָנָה (’almanah) was a woman who had lost her husband, whether by death or abandonment.