Mazmur 35:26

35:26 May those who want to harm me be totally embarrassed and ashamed! ¹ 

May those who arrogantly taunt me be covered with shame and humiliation! ² 

Mazmur 55:4-5

55:4 My heart beats violently ³  within me;

the horrors of death overcome me. ⁴ 

55:5 Fear and panic overpower me; ⁵ 

terror overwhelms ⁶  me.

[35:26]  ¹ tn Heb “may they be embarrassed and ashamed together, the ones who rejoice over my harm.”

[35:26]  ² tn Heb “may they be clothed with shame and humiliation, the ones who magnify [themselves] against me.” The prefixed verbal forms in v. 26 are understood as jussives (see vv. 24b-25, where the negative particle אַל (’al) appears before the prefixed verbal forms, indicating they are jussives). The psalmist is calling down judgment on his enemies.

[55:4]  ³ tn Heb “shakes, trembles.”

[55:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “the terrors of death have fallen on me.”

[55:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “fear and trembling enter into me.”

[55:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “covers.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive carries on the descriptive (present progressive) force of the preceding imperfect.