40:13 Please be willing, O Lord, to rescue me!
O Lord, hurry and help me! 1
40:14 May those who are trying to snatch away my life
be totally embarrassed and ashamed! 2
May those who want to harm me
be turned back and ashamed! 3
40:15 May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”
be humiliated 4 and disgraced! 5
1 tn Heb “hurry to my help.” See Pss 22:19; 38:22.
2 tn Heb “may they be embarrassed and ashamed together, the ones seeking my life to snatch it away.”
3 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.
4 tn The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive in this imprecation.
5 tn Heb “May they be humiliated according to their shame, those who say to me, ‘Aha! Aha!’”