Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
Parallel translations
- WEB May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
- BSB All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
- NKJV Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled; Let them turn back and be ashamed suddenly.
- NASB All my enemies will be put to shame and greatly horrified; They shall turn back, they will suddenly be put to shame.
- NLT May all my enemies be disgraced and terrified. May they suddenly turn back in shame.
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Quick answer
David trusts that his enemies will be put to shame and quickly turned back. He leaves their judgment in God's hands.
Overview
The psalm ends with confidence that those who oppose the righteous will themselves be disgraced and routed. David does not avenge himself but entrusts the outcome to God's justice. This reflects the assurance that the Lord vindicates His people, ultimately through Christ, who triumphs over every enemy.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 21
- Ps 86:17Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
- Jer 20:11But 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.
- Mal 3:18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
- Prov 29:1He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- Ps 7:6Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
- Ps 132:18His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
- Ps 83:16–17Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
- Ps 71:24My 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.
- Ps 112:10The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
- Ps 109:28–29Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
- Ps 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- Ps 35:26Let 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.
- Ps 40:14–15Let 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.
- Ps 25:3Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
- Ps 71:13Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
- Isa 26:11LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
- Ps 5:10Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
- Job 6:29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
- Ps 21:8–9Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
- 1 Th 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
- Ps 2:5Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
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