Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”
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Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”
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Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
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Let them be turned back by reason of their shame that say: 'Aha, aha.'
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Passages linked to Psalms 70:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 40:15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
- Proverbs 24:17-18 Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown, lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
- Acts 1:18 Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.
- Psalms 35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
- Psalms 35:25 Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
- Ezekiel 25:3 Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:
- Ezekiel 26:2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’
- Ezekiel 36:2 The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!” ’
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hereby we are taught not to mock at others…
Hereby we are taught not to mock at others in their misery, lest the same fall on our own necks.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 70:3 Let them be turned back for a…
Psa 70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
Ver. 3. Let them be turned back for a reward] Vel sicut per insidias vel supplantationem, more athletarum, a עקב, Let them be supplanted, defeated.
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That say, Aha, aha] Augustine rendereth it, Euge, Euge, that is, Well done; and giveth this note upon it, Plus persequitur lingua adulatoris quam manus interfectoris, The tongue of a flatterer may mischief a man more than the hand of a murderer. The apostle, Heb 11:37, ranketh their tempting and flattering promises among their bloody deeds, their rising tongues with their terrifying jaws.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Let them be turned back for a reward of…
Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame,.... In Psa 40:15 it is, "let them be desolate"; which seems to respect their land and houses, here their persons; See Gill on Psa 40:15;
that say; in Psa 40:15 it is added, "to me"; not to his people, but himself,
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aha, aha: rejoicing at his calamity and distress. The Targum is,
"we are glad, we are glad;''
See Gill on Psa 40:15, and compare with this Eze 25:3.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 3. That say, Aha, aha.] האה האה heach!…
Verse 3. That say, Aha, aha.] האה האה heach! heach! a note of supreme contempt. See on Ps 40:15.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Let them be turned back for a reward of…
Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame - The only change which occurs in this verse is the substitution of the milder phrase “Let them be turned back,” for “Let them be desolate.” See the notes at Psa 40:15.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 3. Turned—A different and softer word than “turned” in…
3. Turned—A different and softer word than “turned” in Psa_70:2, without the strengthening word “backward” attached, as there. But the same sense of military, or at least, judicial, defeat, or forcible turning back from their evil purpose, is intended. The scope, and the law of parallelism, require it, and the use of the word Psa_6:10, justifies it. In Psa_40:15, a stronger word is used, שׁמם, shamem, literally, to be struck dumb with amazement at the wasting judgment.
Aha, Aha—The words express a taunting exultation over a fallen enemy, (Psa_35:21; Eze_25:3; Eze_26:2; Eze_36:2;) or contempt of an unconquered enemy, (Job_39:25;) or any shallow joy. Isa_44:16
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. Let them be turned back] Let them turn…
3. Let them be turned back] Let them turn back, retreating after their ignominious repulse (Psa_70:2). Cp. Psa_6:10. The reading of Psa_40:15 is let them be desolate. The difference probably arose out of a confusion between the letters m and b (ישמו—ישבו), but may be due to intentional alteration. for a reward of their shame] Better as R.V., by reason of their shame, being foiled in their malicious plans.
Aha, aha] An exclamation of malicious pleasure at another’s misfortune. Cp. Psa_35:21; Psa_35:25. The text of Psa_40:15 reads ‘that say unto me’; and so the LXX here, from which it has passed through the Vulg. into the P.B.V., ‘that cry over me.’
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Let them be turned back for a reward of…
Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame. Psa_40:15 has, "Let them be desolate," but this difference seems to arise from a corruption. That say, Aha, aha! Psa_40:15 has, "that say to me, Aha, aha!" which is better.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 3. Let them be turned back. This is…
Ver. 3. Let them be turned back. This is a milder term than that used in Psalm 40, where he cries, "let them be desolate." Had growing years matured and mellowed the psalmist's spirit? To be "turned back, "however, may come to the same thing as to be "desolate; " disappointed malice is the nearest akin to desolation that can well be conceived.
For a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. They thought to shame the godly, but it was their shame, and shall be their shame for ever. How fond men are of taunts, and if they are meaningless ahas, more like animal cries than human words, it matters nothing, so long as they are a vent for scorn and sting the victim. Rest assured, the enemies of Christ and his people shall have wages for their work; they shall be paid in their own coin; they loved scoffing, and they shall be filled with it--yea, they shall become a proverb and a byword for ever.
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Ver. 3. Aha, aha. In describing his human foes, our Saviour represents them as saying to him, Aha, aha. These exclamations are ebullitions of exulting insolence. They can escape from the lips of those only who are at once haughty and cruel, and insensible to the delicacies and decorum of demeanour. Doubtless, they would be the favourite expressions of the rude rabble that accompanied the traitor in his ignoble campaign against Incarnate Love, and of the rude aristocratic mob that held over the Apostle of Heaven the mockery of an ecclesiastical trial, and of the larger, more excited, and more rancorous multitude that insultingly accompanied him to the cross, and mocked him, and wagged their heads at him, and railed upon him as he meekly, but majestically, hung on the accursed tree. The prescient Saviour would, no doubt, catch in his ears the distant mutter of all the violent and ruthless exclamations with which his foes were about to rend the air; and, amid these heartless and sneering ejaculations, he could not but feel the keen and poisoning edge of the malevolent and hilarious cry, Aha, aha. O miracle of mercy! He who deserved the hallelujahs of an intelligent universe, and the special hosannas of all the children of men, had first to anticipate, and then to endure from the mouths of the very rebels whom he came to bless and to save, the malicious taunting of Aha, aha. James Frame.
Ver. 3.
I. Who are these who cry "shame"?
II. What master do they serve?
III. What shall their wages be?
Psalms 70:4*
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