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Psalm 40:13-15
New English Translation
Psalm 40:13-15
New English Translation
13 Please be willing, O Lord, to rescue me!
O Lord, hurry and help me![a]
14 May those who are trying to snatch away my life
be totally embarrassed and ashamed.[b]
May those who want to harm me
be turned back and ashamed.[c]
15 May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”
be humiliated[d] and disgraced.[e]
Footnotes
- Psalm 40:13 tn Heb “hurry to my help.” See Pss 22:19; 38:22.
- Psalm 40:14 tn Heb “may they be embarrassed and ashamed together, the ones seeking my life to snatch it away.”
- Psalm 40:14 tn 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.sn See Ps 35:4 for a similar prayer.
- Psalm 40:15 tn The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive in this imprecation.
- Psalm 40:15 tn Heb “May they be humiliated according to their shame, those who say to me, ‘Aha! Aha!’”
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