Mazmur 109:28

109:28 They curse, but you will bless. ¹ 

When they attack, they will be humiliated, ² 

but your servant will rejoice.

Yesaya 65:14

65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! ³ 

But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; ⁴ 

you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. ⁵ 

Yeremia 30:19

30:19 Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving ⁶ 

and the sounds of laughter and merriment.

I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away. ⁷ 

I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.

Zefanya 3:14

3:14 Shout for joy, Daughter Zion! ⁸ 

Shout out, Israel!

Be happy and boast with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!

[109:28]  ¹ tn Another option is to translate the imperfect as a prayer/request (“may you bless”).

[109:28]  ² tn The verbal sequence is perfect + prefixed form with vav (ו) consecutive. Since the psalmist seems to be anticipating the demise of his enemies, he may be using these forms rhetorically to describe the enemies’ defeat as if it were already accomplished. Some emend the text to קָמוּ יֵבֹשׁוּ (qamu yevoshu, “may those who attack me be humiliated”). See L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 75.

[65:14]  ³ tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”

[65:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”

[65:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”

[30:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “Out of them will come thanksgiving and a sound of those who are playful.”

[30:19]  ⁷ sn Compare Jer 29:6.

[3:14]  ⁸ sn This phrase is used as an epithet for the city and the nation. “Daughter” may seem extraneous in English but consciously joins the various epithets and metaphors of Israel and Jerusalem as a woman, a device used to evoke sympathy from the reader.