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16Fill{H8761)} their faces with shame; that they may seek{H8762)} thy name, O LORD.

Psalms 83:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Psalms 9:19-20

    Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. …

  • Psalms 6:10

    Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

  • Psalms 34:5

    They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

  • Psalms 109:29

    Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

  • Psalms 132:18

    His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

Commentary

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

(vv. 9-18)

The psalmist here, in the name of the church, prays for the destruction of those confederate forces, and, in God’s name, foretels it; for this prayer that it might be so amounts to a prophecy that it shall be so, and this prophecy reaches to all the enemies of the gospel-church; whoever they be that oppose the kingdom of Christ, here they may read their doom. The prayer is, in short, that these en…

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