Psalms 83:17
May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
BSB
ASV
Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; Yea, let them be confounded and perish;
KJV
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
Finally, in what follows also, see what he says. Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever, and let them be confounded and perish. Let them perish according to that which is evil in them, and let that which is good be saved. Finally, see that "perdition" here does not signify abolition, but salvation.
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever,.... As long as they are in this world, and to all eternity in another; a dreadful portion this: yea, let them be put to shame, and perish; wholly and eternally, in soul and body, for evermore.
Let them be put to a stand, that they may have both leisure and reason to pause a little, and consider who it is that they are fighting against and what an unequal match they are for him, and may therefore humble and submit themselves and desire conditions of peace.
This, in the singing of it, we may apply to the enemies of the gospel-church, all anti-christian powers and factions, representing to God their confederacies against Christ and his kingdom, and rejoicing in the hope that all their projects will be baffled and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church.
Where no good result followed, and the men remained as fierce and obstinate as ever, justice was invoked to carry out the capital sentence. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish. What else could be done with them? It was better that they perished than that Israel should be rooted up.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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Psalms 35:4May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
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May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
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May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.
Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called on You. Let the wicked be put to shame; let them lie silent in Sheol.
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Psalms 109:29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.
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I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”
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Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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Psalms 35:26May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
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For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”