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Selected Verse: Psalms 35:4 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 35:4 |
Strong Concordance |
Let them be confounded [0954] and put to shame [03637] that seek [01245] after my soul [05315]: let them be turned [05472] back [0268] and brought to confusion [02659] that devise [02803] my hurt [07451]. |
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King James |
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. |
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] |
(Compare Psa 9:17).
devise my hurt--purpose for evil to me. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Let them be confounded - That is, Let them, through Thy gracious interposition in my behalf, be so entirely overcome and subdued that they shall be "ashamed" that they ever made the effort to destroy me; let them see so manifestly that God is on my side that they will be covered with confusion for having opposed one who was so entirely the object of the divine protection and care. See Psa 6:10, note; Psa 25:2-3, notes. Compare the notes at Job 6:20.
That seek after my soul - My life. That seek to destroy me.
Let them be turned back - In their attempts to pursue me. Do thou interpose and turn them back.
And brought to confusion - Put to shame; or made ashamed - as they are who are disappointed and thwarted in their schemes. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Throughout the next two strophes follow terrible imprecations. According to Frst and others the relation of בּושׁ and חפר is like that of erblassen, to turn pale (cf. Isa 29:22 with Psa 34:6), and errצthen, to turn red, to blush. בושׁ has, however, no connection with בוץ, nor has חפר, Arab. chfr, chmr, any connection with Arab. hmr, to be red; but, according to its radical notion, בּושׁ means disturbari (vid., Ps 6:11), and חפר, obtegere, abscondere (vid., Psa 34:6). יסּגוּ, properly "let them be made to fall back" (cf. e.g., Isa 42:17). On the figure on Psa 35:5 cf. Psa 83:14. The clauses respecting the Angel of Jahve, Psa 35:5 and Psa 35:6, are circumstantial clauses, viz., clauses defining the manner. דּחה (giving, viz., them, the push that shall cause their downfall, equivalent to דּחם or דּחם, Psa 68:28) is closely connected with the figure in Psa 35:6, and רדפם, with the figure in Psa 35:5; consequently it seems as though the original position of these two clauses respecting the Angel of Jahve had been disturbed; just as in Ps 34, the ע strophe and the פ strophe have changed their original places. It is the Angel, who took off Pharaoh's chariot wheels so that they drave them heavily (Exo 14:25) that is intended here. The fact that this Angel is concerned here, where the point at issue is whether the kingship of the promise shall be destroyed at its very beginning or not, harmonises with the appearing of the מלאך ה at all critical junctures in the course of the history of redemption. חלקלקּות, loca passim lubrica, is an intensive form of expression for חלקות rof noisserp, Psa 73:18. Just as דּחה recalls to mind Ex 15, so רדפם recalls Judg 5. In this latter passage the Angel of Jahve also appears in the midst of the conquerors who are pursuing the smitten foe, incarnate as it were in Deborah. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Let then be confounded - Let none of their projects or devices against me succeed. Blast all their designs.
The imprecations in these verses against enemies are all legitimate. They are not against the souls or eternal welfare of those sinners, but against their schemes and plans for destroying the life of an innocent man; and the holiest Christian may offer up such prayers against his adversaries. If a man aim a blow at another with a design to take away his life, and the blow would infallibly be mortal if it took place, and the person about to be slain see that by breaking the arm of his adversary he may prevent his own death, and thus save his enemy from actual murder; it is his duty to prevent this double evil by breaking the arm of the blood-thirsty man. It is on this principle that David prays against his adversaries in the first eight verses of this Psalm. |
17 The wicked [07563] shall be turned [07725] into hell [07585], and all the nations [01471] that forget [07913] God [0430].
20 They were confounded [0954] because they had hoped [0982]; they came [0935] thither, and were ashamed [02659].
2 O my God [0430], I trust [0982] in thee: let me not be ashamed [0954], let not mine enemies [0341] triumph [05970] over me.
3 Yea, let none that wait [06960] on thee be ashamed [0954]: let them be ashamed [0954] which transgress [0898] without cause [07387].
10 Let all mine enemies [0341] be ashamed [0954] and sore [03966] vexed [0926]: let them return [07725] and be ashamed [0954] suddenly [07281].
18 Surely thou didst set [07896] them in slippery places [02513]: thou castedst them down [05307] into destruction [04876].
25 And took off [05493] their chariot [04818] wheels [0212], that they drave [05090] them heavily [03517]: so that the Egyptians [04714] said [0559], Let us flee [05127] from the face [06440] of Israel [03478]; for the LORD [03068] fighteth [03898] for them against the Egyptians [04714].
5 Let them be as chaff [04671] before [06440] the wind [07307]: and let the angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] chase [01760] them.
6 Let their way [01870] be dark [02822] and slippery [02519]: and let the angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] persecute [07291] them.
28 Thy God [0430] hath commanded [06680] thy strength [05797]: strengthen [05810], O God [0430], that which [02098] thou hast wrought [06466] for us.
6 Let their way [01870] be dark [02822] and slippery [02519]: and let the angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] persecute [07291] them.
5 Let them be as chaff [04671] before [06440] the wind [07307]: and let the angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] chase [01760] them.
14 As the fire [0784] burneth [01197] a wood [03293], and as the flame [03852] setteth [03857] the mountains [02022] on fire [03857];
5 Let them be as chaff [04671] before [06440] the wind [07307]: and let the angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] chase [01760] them.
17 They shall be turned [05472] back [0268], they shall be greatly [01322] ashamed [0954], that trust [0982] in graven images [06459], that say [0559] to the molten images [04541], Ye are our gods [0430].
6 This poor man [06041] cried [07121], and the LORD [03068] heard [08085] him, and saved [03467] him out of all his troubles [06869].
6 This poor man [06041] cried [07121], and the LORD [03068] heard [08085] him, and saved [03467] him out of all his troubles [06869].
22 Therefore thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], who redeemed [06299] Abraham [085], concerning the house [01004] of Jacob [03290], Jacob [03290] shall not now be ashamed [0954], neither shall his face [06440] now wax pale [02357].