Psa 31:17 | NETfull | STEP | O Lord , do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave!

Psalms 31:17

17 O Lord, do not let me be humiliated,
for I call out to you!
May evil men be humiliated!
May they go wailing to the grave! ^{▼▼ The verb יִדְּמוּ (yidd^emu) is understood as a form of דָּמַם (damam, “wail, lament”). Another option is to take the verb from דָּמַם (“be quiet”; see BDB 198-99 s.v. I דָּמַם), in which case one might translate, “May they lie silent in the grave.”}