Psalm 37/Notes/Textual.v. 7.507032
From Psalms: Layer by Layer
The MT (וְהִתְח֪וֹלֵ֫ל) has a hithpoel imperative (root: חיל), which occurs also in Job 15:20 and Jer 23:19). BHS and HALOT propose reading וְתוֹחֵל instead (a hiphil 2ms from the root יחל = "wait"; cf. Aquila ἀποκαραδόκει = "expect earnestly"), but our oldest Hebrew witness, the Qumran pesher manuscript 4Q171, supports the reading התחולל in its lemma. The LXX's translation (ἱκέτευσον = "supplicate, beseech"; cf. Symmachus ἱκέτευε) is probably just an attempt to make sense of this difficult text (cf. Dorival 2021, 434).