Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
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Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
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Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
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(83-18) Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashed and perish;
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Passages linked to Psalms 83:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 35:4 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
- Psalms 35:26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
- Psalms 40:14-15 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt. Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
- Psalms 109:29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for…
Psa 83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
Ver. 17. Let them be confounded, &c.] This and the following verse are an exposition of the former verse. The Rabbis have a saying, nulla est obiectio in Lege, quae non habet solutionem in latere , The Scripture is its own interpreter.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain But those of them that will not humble themselves…
But those of them that will not humble themselves before thee, let them be utterly destroyed.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Let them be confounded and troubled for ever,.... As…
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.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 17. Let them - perish] That is, in…
Verse 17. Let them - perish] That is, in their present attempts. Some have objected to the execrations in this Psalm, without due consideration. None of these execrations refer either to their souls or to their eternal state; but merely to their discomfiture on their present attempts. Suppose the continental powers should join together to subjugate Britain, and destroy the Protestant religion; is there a Christian in the land that would not be justified in meeting them with the same or similar execrations? On the knees of my soul would I offer every one of them to God against such invaders. Selah.-A. C.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Let them be confounded - Let them be ashamed.…
Let them be confounded - Let them be ashamed. That is, Let them have that kind of shame and confusion which results from the fact that their plans have not been successful, or that they have been foiled and baffled in their schemes.
And troubled - Disturbed; put to confusion. Let them be troubled as men are who are unsuccessful in their projects.
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Forever - As a people; as confederated nations; as united in such an unholy alliance. Let them never again be able thus to combine, or to form a compact for the destruction of thy people. This does not refer to them as individuals, but as nations. It is a prayer that they may be so discomfited now that they may see the wickedness and folly of all such efforts, and that they may never again form such a combination.
Yea, let them be put to shame - By utter failure in their schemes.
And perish - Not individually, but as combined - as an alliance. Let there be a complete end to such a confederacy, so that it shall never be seen again.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 17. Confounded… troubled for ever… put to shame… perish—Strong…
17. Confounded… troubled for ever… put to shame… perish—Strong words. The psalmist sees it is folly to hope directly for the conversion of his enemies; their power must first be broken, and in their distress they may confess God.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. Let them be ashamed and dismayed for ever;
17. Let them be ashamed and dismayed for ever;
Yea, let them be put to confusion and perish:
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Lot them be confounded and troubled forever; yea, let…
Lot them be confounded and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish. An expansion of the thought contained in the first clause of the preceding verse, which must not be regarded as annulling the kind wish of the second clause. Like Hezekiah, (Isa_37:20) the psalmist desires nothing so much as that "all the kingdoms of the earth may know that Jehovah, and he only, is God," and may turn to him in sincerity and truth. It is for this end that he wishes them to be brought low, even to the verge of destruction.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 17. Where no good result followed, and the…
Ver. 17. 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. What a terrible doom it will be to the enemies of God to be "confounded, and troubled for ever, "to see all their schemes and hopes defeated, and their bodies and souls full of anguish without end: from such a shameful perishing may our souls be delivered.
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Ver. 17. The righteous fate of persecutors, and troublers.
Psalms 83:18*
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