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2Let them be ashamed{H8799)} and confounded{H8799)} that seek{H8764)} after my soul: let them be turned{H8735)} backward, and put to confusion{H8735)}, that desire my hurt.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
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.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The title tells us that this psalm was designed to bring to remembrance; that is, to put God in remembrance of his mercy and promises (for so we are said to do when we pray to him and plead with him. Isa. 43:26; Put me in remembrance )--not that the Eternal Mind needs a remembrancer, but this honour he is pleased to put upon the prayer of faith. Or, rather, to put himself and others in remembrance…
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