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13Let them be confounded{H8799)} and consumed{H8799)} that are adversaries{H8802)} to my soul; let them be covered{H8799)} with reproach and dishonour that seek{H8764)} my hurt.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
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.
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.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)Two things in general David here prays for—that he might not be confounded and that his enemies and persecutors might be confounded. I. He prays that he might never be made ashamed of his dependence upon God nor disappointed in his believing expectations from him. With this petition every true believer may come boldly to the throne of grace; for God will never disappoint the hope that is of his ow…
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