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 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. Ps 31:17,18 35:4,26 70:2,3 71:13 Isa 41:11 45:24
that Mt 21:38-41
driven Ps 9:3 Joh 18:6 Ac 9:4-6 12:23,24

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