39:8 Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion!
Do not make me the object of fools’ insults!
44:13 You made us 1 an object of disdain to our neighbors;
those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. 2
69:7 For I suffer 3 humiliation for your sake 4
and am thoroughly disgraced. 5
69:10 I weep and refrain from eating food, 6
which causes others to insult me. 7
78:66 He drove his enemies back;
he made them a permanent target for insults. 8
89:41 All who pass by 9 have robbed him;
he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.
109:25 I am disdained by them. 10
When they see me, they shake their heads. 11
119:22 Spare me 12 shame and humiliation,
for I observe your rules.
119:39 Take away the insults that I dread! 13
Indeed, 14 your regulations are good.
1 tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).
2 tn Heb “an [object of] taunting and [of] mockery to those around us.”
1 tn Heb “carry, bear.”
2 tn Heb “on account of you.”
3 tn Heb “and shame covers my face.”
1 sn Fasting was a practice of mourners. By refraining from normal activities such as eating food, the mourner demonstrated the sincerity of his sorrow.
2 tn Heb “and it becomes insults to me.”
1 tn Heb “a permanent reproach he made them.”
1 tn Heb “all the passersby on the road.”
1 tn Heb “as for me, I am a reproach to them.”
2 sn They shake their heads. Apparently shaking the head was a taunting gesture. See also Job 16:4; Ps 22:7; Lam 2:15.
1 tn Heb “roll away from upon me.” Some derive the imperatival form גַּל (gal) from גָּלָה (galah, “uncover,” as in v. 18), but here the form is from גָּלַל (galal, “roll”; see Josh 5:9, where חֶרְפָּה [kherpah, “shame; reproach”] also appears as object of the verb). Some, following the lead of a Dead Sea scroll (11QPsa), emend the form to גֹּל (gol).
1 tn Heb “my reproach that I fear.”
2 tn Or “for.”