Psalms 40:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

Psalms 40:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 35:21
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Psalms 69:24-25
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. …
Psalms 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Luke 19:43-44
For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, …
Psalms 73:19
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-17)

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. Christ having done his Father’s will, and finished his work, and given orders for the preaching of the gospel to every creature, we are encouraged to come boldly to the t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

14-15. The language is not necessarily imprecatory, but rather a confident expectation (Psa 5:11), though the former sense is not inconsistent with Christ’s prayer for the forgiveness of His murderers, inasmuch as their confusion and shame might be the very means to prepare them for humbly seeking forgiveness (compare Ac 2:37).