Psalms 71:13

71:13 May my accusers be humiliated and defeated!

May those who want to harm me ¹  be covered with scorn and disgrace!

Psalms 71:24

71:24 All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice,

for those who want to harm me ²  will be embarrassed and ashamed. ³ 

[71:13]  ¹ tn Heb “those who seek my harm.”

[71:24]  ² tn Heb “those who seek my harm.”

[71:24]  ³ tn Heb “will have become embarrassed and ashamed.” The perfect verbal forms function here as future perfects, indicating future actions which will precede chronologically the action expressed by the main verb in the preceding line.