36:12 I can see the evildoers! They have fallen! 1
They have been knocked down and are unable to get up! 2
139:2 You know when I sit down and when I get up;
even from far away you understand my motives.
1 tn Heb “there the workers of wickedness have fallen.” The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) is used here for dramatic effect, as the psalmist envisions the evildoers lying fallen at a spot that is vivid in his imagination (BDB 1027 s.v.).
2 tn The psalmist uses perfect verbal forms in v. 12 to describe the demise of the wicked as if it has already taken place.