“Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.”
The continuation that evildoers should be turned back and put to shame establishes the petition for the reversal and humiliation of enemies. The turning back indicates that enemies will be scattered and forced to retreat. The shaming of enemies establishes that their apparent triumph will be reversed. This verse articulates the dual petition: rescue for the righteous and judgment for the wicked.
Church Fathers on Psalms 70:2
1. Thanks to the “Grain of wheat,” because He willed to die and to be multiplied: thanks to the only Son of God, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who disdained not to undergo our death, in order that He might make us worthy of His life. Behold Him that was single until He went hence; as He said in another Psalm, “Single I am until I go hence;” for He was a single grain of wheat in such sort as that He had in Himself a great fruitfulness of increase; in how many corns…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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