“Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.”
The psalmist calls for the enemies to be ashamed and confounded together, and for those who rejoice in his calamity to be clothed with shame and dishonor. The double desire—that they be ashamed and clothed with shame—suggests emphatic prayer for the reversal of the enemies' anticipated triumph. The specific mention of shame and dishonor as their portion suggests that the psalmist expects God to visit judgment that will undo the enemies' plans entirely. This verse employs imprecatory language to express the desire that God's justice would manifest visibly.
Church Fathers on Psalms 35:26
1. ...The title of it causes us no delay, for it is both brief, and to be understood not difficult, especially to those nursed in the Church of God. For so it is, “To David himself.” The Psalm then is to David himself: now David is interpreted, Strong in hand, or Desirable. The Psalm then is to the Strong in hand, and Desirable, to Him who for us has overcome death, who unto us has promised life: for in this is He Strong in hand, that He has overcome death for us; in this is…
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