139:19 If only 1 you would kill the wicked, O God!
Get away from me, you violent men! 2
1 tn The Hebrew particle אִם (’im, “if”) and following prefixed verbal form here express a wish (see Pss 81:8; 95:7, as well as GKC 321 §109.b).
2 tn Heb “men of bloodshed.”