Psalms 36:12

I can see the evildoers! They have fallen! ¹  They have been knocked down and are unable to get up! ² 

Jud 5:31; Ps 1:5; Ps 9:16; Ps 18:38; Ps 55:23; Ps 58:10,11; Ps 64:7-9; Jer 51:64; 2Th 1:8,9; Re 15:4; Re 19:1-6

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.