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21 O Lord, do I not hate those who hate you,
and despise those who oppose you?[a]
22 I absolutely hate them;[b]
they have become my enemies.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:21 tc Heb “who raise themselves up against you.” The form וּבִתְקוֹמְמֶיךָ (uvitqomemekha) should be emended to וּבְמִתְקוֹמְמֶיךָ (uvemitqomemekha), a Hitpolel participle (the prefixed מ [mem] of the participle is accidentally omitted in the MT, though a few medieval Hebrew mss have it).
  2. Psalm 139:22 tn Heb “[with] completeness of hatred I hate them.”