Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageCover their faces with shame — until they turn and seek Your name, Yahweh!
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GFill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, YHWH!
KJV
King James VersionFill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleCover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
Footnotes
This is the psalm's most arresting turn: the fierce imprecation opens toward a redemptive possibility. *Vivakveshu shimkha YHWH* — "that they may seek Your name, YHWH" — the shame is not purely punitive but potentially converting; *baqash* (to seek) is the language of earnest spiritual searching throughout the Psalter. This creates tension with v.17's language of perishing, resolved finally in v.18 by the universal knowledge of YHWH — the psalmist deliberately holds both outcomes open. FOG renders the purpose clause literally; FOG Message adds "turn and" to make the movement of conversion explicit.