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 it. Just as the accentuation of the form סבּוּ varies elsewhere out of pause, ורבּוּ here has the tone on the ultima, although it is not ''perf. consec''. Psa 38:21 is an apposition of the subject, which remains the same as in Psa 38:20. Instead of רדופי (Ges. §61, rem. 2) the Kerî is רדפי, rādephî  (without any Makkeph following), or רדפי, rādophî; cf. on this pronunciation, Psa 86:2; Psa 16:1, and with the Chethîb רדופי, the Chethîb צרופה, Psa 26:2, also מיורדי, Psa 30:4. By the “following of that which is good” David means more particularly that which is brought into exercise in relation to his present foes. He closes in Psa 38:22 with sighs for help. No lighting up of the darkness of wrath takes place. The fides supplex is not changed into fides triumphans. But the closing words, “O Lord,