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Selected Verse: Psalms 40:15 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 40:15 |
King James |
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
for a reward--literally, "in consequence of."
Aha--(Compare Psa 35:21, Psa 35:25). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Let them be desolate - The word here employed means to be astonished or amazed; then, to be laid waste, or made desolate. As used here, it refers to their purposes, and the wish or prayer is that they might be wholly unsuccessful, or that in respect to success they might be like a waste and desolate field where nothing grows.
For a reward - The word used here - עקב ‛êqeb - means the end, the last of anything; then, the recompence, reward, wages, as being the end, the result, or issue of a certain course of conduct. That is, in this case, the desolation prayed for would be a proper recompence for their purpose, or for what they said. "Of their shame." Of their shameful act or purpose; their act as deserving of ignominy.
That say unto me, Aha, aha - That use language of reproach and contempt. This is a term of exultation over another; a word of rejoicing at the calamities that come on another; an act of joy over a fallen enemy: Eze 25:3; see Psa 35:21, note; Psa 35:25, note. As understood of the Messiah, this would refer to the taunts and reproaches of his enemies; the exultation which they manifested when they had him in their power - when they felt secure that their vexations in regard to him were at an end, or that they would be troubled with him no more. By putting him to death they supposed that they might feel safe from further molestation on his account. For this act, this note of exultation and joy, on the part of the Jewish rulers, and of the people as stimulated by those rulers, the desolation which came upon them (the utter ruin of their temple, their city, and their nation) was an appropriate reward. That desolation did not go beyond their desert, for their treatment of the Messiah - as the ruin of the sinner in the future world will not go beyond his desert for having rejected the same Messiah as his Saviour. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Shame - Their sinful and shameful actions. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| That say unto me, Aha, aha - האח האח. See on Psa 35:21 (note). |
25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.