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17Let them be confounded{H8799)} and troubled{H8735)} for ever; yea, let them be put to shame{H8799)}, and perish{H8799)}:

Psalms 83:17

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Matthew Henry

(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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