In Gbaya, the notion of stretch out their hands to do wrong (and therefore entangling with evil) in Psalm 125:3 is emphasized with ɗak-ɗuk, an ideophone that denotes something intertwined, expresses vain efforts to untangle, to free oneself, to free oneself.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)