Discovery BoxPsalms 31:15-18 
Context31:15 You determine my destiny! 1
Rescue me from the power of my enemies and those who chase me.
31:16 Smile 2 on your servant!
Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
31:17 O Lord, do not let me be humiliated,
for I call out to you!
May evil men be humiliated!
May they go wailing to the grave! 3
31:18 May lying lips be silenced –
lips 4 that speak defiantly against the innocent 5
with arrogance and contempt!
1 tn Heb “in your hand [are] my times.”
2 tn Heb “cause your face to shine.”
3 tn The verb יִדְּמוּ (yiddÿmu) is understood as a form of דָּמַם (damam, “wail, lament”). Another option is to take the verb from דָּמַם (“be quiet”; see BDB 198-99 s.v. I דָּמַם), in which case one might translate, “May they lie silent in the grave.”
4 tn Heb “the [ones which].”
5 tn Or “godly.”
