71:13 May my accusers be humiliated and defeated!
May those who want to harm me 1 be covered with scorn and disgrace!
109:20 May the Lord repay my accusers in this way, 2
those who say evil things about 3 me! 4
1 tn Heb “those who seek my harm.”
2 tn Heb “[may] this [be] the repayment to my accusers from the
3 tn Or “against.”
4 tn The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “being; soul”) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).