Psalms 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! ¹ 

1Sa 2:9; Ps 6:10; Ps 25:2,3; Ps 31:1; Ps 34:5; Ps 35:4,26; Ps 40:14,15; Ps 69:6,7; Ps 70:2,3; Ps 71:24; Ps 83:16,17; Ps 115:17; Isa 41:11,12; Isa 45:16,17; Isa 50:6,7; Isa 65:13,14; Jer 20:11; Da 12:2; Joe 2:26,27; Mt 22:12,13

¹ 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.”