Aqalqalotam is a rare reduplicated intensive form from aqal ('to be crooked/twisted'), conveying something like 'their most deeply crooked ways'—moral deviation so thoroughgoing it has become their defining path. The doubling of the root mimics in sound the very quality it describes, a kind of Hebrew onomatopoeia of moral distortion. The psalm closes with shalom al-Yisra'el—the identical liturgical benediction that closes Psalm 128:6, likely a formulaic blessing used at the end of pilgrimage songs. It functions as both a corporate blessing and a boundary marker: shalom belongs to faithful Israel, not to those who deviate. F.O.G. preserves Shalom and Yisra'el in transliteration and renders the intensive form with 'ever more crooked ways'; F.O.G.M. uses 'ever more twisted' and translates shalom as 'Peace' in its liturgical benediction form.

Aqalqalotam is a rare reduplicated intensive form from aqal ('to be crooked/twisted'), conveying something like 'their most deeply crooked ways'—moral deviation so thoroughgoing it has become their defining path. The doubling of the root mimics in sound the very quality it describes, a kind of Hebrew onomatopoeia of moral distortion. The psalm closes with shalom al-Yisra'el—the identical liturgical benediction that closes Psalm 128:6, likely a formulaic blessing used at the end of pilgrimage songs. It functions as both a corporate blessing and a boundary marker: shalom belongs to faithful Israel, not to those who deviate. F.O.G. preserves Shalom and Yisra'el in transliteration and renders the intensive form with 'ever more crooked ways'; F.O.G.M. uses 'ever more twisted' and translates shalom as 'Peace' in its liturgical benediction form.