A section of Psalm 32 was one of the readings on Worship Anew a couple weeks ago. I was following along in the Psalms portion of my French hymnal, and half of verse 7 ("de chants de délivrance, tu m'as entouré") made me realize that a specific feature of French almost mirrors the meaning. It doesn't quite work in Psalm 32:7 (because there's an ablative of means), but I found a better example in Psalm 22:13. In French, it's "Des fauvres nombreux me cernent, des taureaux de Basan m'encerclent" ("Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me"). Because French has a subject-object-verb word order*, "me" (in bold) is literally "surround[ed]" by the noun and verb (in italics): "Des fauvres nombreux me cernent, des taureaux de Basan m'encerclent."
I lookt in my German Psalter and found a similar feature there. In the German translation, the verbs are perfects ("they have surrounded me"), but because of German word order, the "me"s here are literally surrounded too: "Gewaltige Stiere haben mich umgeben, mächtige Büffel haben mich umringt."
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*In this instance, at least. If I remember aright, French uses subject-object-verb word order only if the object is a pronoun.
