Psa 40:14 | NETfull | STEP | May those who are trying to snatch away my life be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

Psalms 40:14

14 May those who are trying to snatch away my life
be totally embarrassed and ashamed! ^{▼▼ Heb “may they be embarrassed and ashamed together, the ones seeking my life to snatch it away.”}
May those who want to harm me
be turned back and ashamed! ^{▼▼ 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.} ^{▼▼ See Ps 35:4 for a similar prayer.}