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Psalm 40:14 KJV
Psalms · chapter 40 · verse 14
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.Psalm 40:14 · King James Version
Psalm 40:14 in context
12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- confoundedchâphêrto blushH2659 →
- togetheryachadproperly, a unitH3162 →
- backwardʼâchôwrthe hinder partH268 →
- ashamedbûwshproperly, to paleH954 →
- destroyçâphâhproperly, to scrape (literally, to shaveH5595 →
- drivençûwgproperly, to flinchH5472 →
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The psalmist, having meditated upon the work of redemption, and spoken of it in the person of the Messiah, now comes to make improvement of the doctrine of his mediation between us and God, and therefore speaks in his own person.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-17