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Just as the first part of the Psalm closed with wishes, and thanksgiving for their fulfilment, so the second part also closes with a prayer and thanksgiving. כַּמָּה (compounded of כְּ, instar, and the interrogative מָה which is drawn into the genitive by it; Aramaic כְּמָא, Arabic kam, Hebrew, like בַּמָּה, with Dag. forte conjunct., properly: the total of what?), which elsewhere means quot, here has the signification of quousque, as in Job 7:19. מִשֹּׁאֵיהֶם from שֹׁאָה, the plural of which may be both שֹׁאִים and שֹׁאֹות (this latter, however, does not occur), like the plural of אֵימָה, terror, אֵימִים and אֵימֹות. The suffix, which refers to the enemies as the authors of the destructions (Pro 3:25), shows that it is not to be rendered “from their destroyers” (Hitzig). If God continues thus to look on instead of acting, then the destructions, which are passing over David's soul, will utterly destroy it. Hence the prayer: lead it back, bring that back, which is already well night borne away to destruction. On יְהִידָה vid., Psa 22:21. The כְּפִירִים, which is intended literally in Psa 34:11, is here emblematical. אֹודְךָ is the cohortative. עָצוּם as a parallel word to רַב always refers, according to the context, to strength of numbers or to strength of power.