“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.
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