“Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.”
The prayer that those who say "Aha, Aha" be turned back for their shame establishes that the taunters and mockers will experience reversal of their fortune. The exclamation "Aha, Aha" represents contemptuous mockery of the afflicted. The turning back in shame articulates that the mockers will become the objects of derision themselves. This verse focuses on the punishment of those who take pleasure in others' misery.
Church Fathers on Psalms 70:3
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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