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17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
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O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. …
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. …
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)In the Ps. 31:1-8 David had appealed to God’s righteousness, and pleaded his relation to him and dependence on him; here he appeals to his mercy, and pleads the greatness of his own misery, which made his case the proper object of that mercy. Observe, I. The complaint he makes of his trouble and distress (Ps. 31:9): “ Have mercy upon me, O Lord! for I am in trouble , and need thy mercy.” The remem…
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