139:21 O Lord, do I not hate those who hate you,
and despise those who oppose you? 1
139:22 I absolutely hate them, 2
they have become my enemies!
1 tc Heb “who raise themselves up against you.” The form וּבִתְקוֹמְמֶיךָ (uvitqomÿmekha) should be emended to וּבְמִתְקוֹמְמֶיךָ (uvÿmitqomÿmekha), a Hitpolel participle (the prefixed mem [מ] of the participle is accidentally omitted in the MT, though a few medieval Hebrew
2 tn Heb “[with] completeness of hatred I hate them.”