Psalms 40:15
May those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled at their own shame.
BSB
ASV
Let them be desolate by reason of their shame That say unto me, Aha, aha.
KJV
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Let them be desolate, or amazed; even as Jesus was desolate in his agony, so let his enemies be in their despair when he defeats them. The desolation caused in the hearts of evil spirits and evil men by envy, malice, chagrin, disappointment, and despair, shall be a fit recompense for their cruelty to the Lord when he was in their hands. For a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. Did the foul fiend insult over our Lord? Behold how shame is now his reward!
Both the conversion of a sinner and the glorification of a saint are great disappointments to Satan, who does his utmost, with all his power and subtlety, to hinder both. Now, our Lord Jesus having undertaken to bring about the salvation of all his chosen, we may in faith pray that, in both these ways, that great adversary may be confounded.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 35:21They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
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As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,
They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
May those who say, “Aha, aha!” retreat because of their shame.
For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have stared down my foes.
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Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”
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All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see…
when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
