Psalm 40:14
May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Let them be ashamed
- The verbs in the preceding verse, in which the psalmist simply prays for deliverance, are in the imperative; but here, and in the following verses, they are in the future tense, and naturally express the language of lively faith and hope, rather than that of wishing the destruction foreseen and predicted.
- Psalm 31:17, 18; Psalm 35:4, 26; Psalm 70:2, 3; Psalm 71:13; Isaiah 41:11; Isaiah 45:24
- that
- Matthew 21:38–41
- driven
- Psalm 9:3; John 18:6; Acts 9:4–6; Acts 12:23, 24