Mazmur 119:21

119:21 You reprimand arrogant people.

Those who stray from your commands are doomed. ¹ 

Mazmur 119:51

119:51 Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. ² 

Yet I do not turn aside from your law.

Mazmur 119:85

119:85 The arrogant dig pits to trap me, ³ 

which violates your law. ⁴ 

Mazmur 35:26

35:26 May those who want to harm me be totally embarrassed and ashamed! ⁵ 

May those who arrogantly taunt me be covered with shame and humiliation! ⁶ 

[119:21]  ¹ tn Heb “accursed.” The traditional punctuation of the Hebrew text takes “accursed” with the previous line (“arrogant, accursed ones”), but it is preferable to take it with the second line as the predicate of the statement.

[119:51]  ² tn Heb “scoff at me to excess.”

[119:85]  ³ tn Heb “for me.”

[119:85]  ⁴ tn Heb “which [is] not according to your law.”

[35:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “may they be embarrassed and ashamed together, the ones who rejoice over my harm.”

[35:26]  ⁶ 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.