Psalms 40:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. ”

Psalms 40:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let them be ashamed and confounded together - See at Psalms 35:4 , note; Psalms 35:26 , note. This may be understood here rather as a confident expectation than a wish or desire. It implies the...
Psalms 40:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Let them be (l) ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. (l) He desires that God's mercy may contend for...
Psalms 40:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XL. A. Psalms 40:1-11 . A Thanksgiving for Deliverance. The Psalmist believes that his own gratitude will give confidence to others. God, he says, takes no special delight in sacrificial worship....
Psalms 40:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
Psalms 40:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Psalms 40:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me ... Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul ...
Psalms 40:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. falls into two well-marked divisions, which many think to have been originally separate Pss. In Psalms 40:1-11 the writer recalls with thankfulness how God has heard his prayers and delive...
Psalms 40:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 40:1-17 THE closing verses of this psalm reappear with slight changes as an independent whole in Psalms 70:1-5 . The question arises whether that is a fragment or this a conglomerate. Mode...
Psalms 40:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Cry for Deliverance Psalms 40:11-17 To the end of life we shall continually need God's lovingkindness, to deal mercifully with our failures and sins, and His truth, that is, His faithfuln...
Psalms 40:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Again we find in this psalm the perfect structure found in Psalms 27:1-14 . Praise prepares for prayer. The experience has mounted higher than in the preceding song (39). The singer still suffers di...
Psalms 40:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

See, Reader, with what confidence Jesus beholds the travail of his soul. His enemies, and the enemies of his church, must be destroyed. This is in the covenant. I will beat down his foes before his f...
Psalms 40:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).
Psalms 40:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let them be ashamed and confounded together ,.... As they will be at the last day, when they shall see him whom they have pierced come in the clouds of heaven, in his own and his Father's glory, and...
Psalms 40:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Ver. 14. Let them be ashamed and confounded toget...
Psalms 40:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Be pleased to deliver me From my sins, and the punishment due to them. Let them be ashamed For the disappointment of their hopes and designs. That seek after my soul That is, my life. Let them...
Psalms 40:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Encouragement in Prayer. 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O L ORD : let thy lovingkindness and thy trut...
Psalms 40:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Let them be ashamed, for the disappointment of their hopes and designs. My soul, i.e. my life, as Exodus 4:9 1 Samuel 20:1 .
Psalms 40:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Having Established His Gratitude And Loyalty And The Faithfulness Of His Testimony With Regard to God, He Now Seeks God's Aid In Helping Him With Regard To His Own Sinfulness And Prays Also For Assi...
Psalms 40:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription : “To the Chief Musician, a Psalm of David.” The psalm is addressed to “the Chief Musician,” that he might set it to music for use in public worship. We have no means o...
Psalms 40:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

These are the words of David: they are the words of all God's tried and believing people; but above all they are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. So complete is the union between Christ an...
Psalms 40:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This psalm of David is a consequence of the preseding. It is an ode of thanksgiving for liberation from the profound grief and sorrow under which he had groaned. Here he rises above the cloud, and as...
Psalms 40:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry. Waiting for the Lord There is a Divine law of waiting which has an essential connection with the larger law of giving...
Psalms 40:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE occasion of this psalm is some great deliverance which has been vouchsafed to the author of it, for which he desires to praise and thank God. Of this deliverance he speaks in P...
Psalms 40:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prophecy of Christ's Suffering and Prophetic Office. To the chief musician, for performance in liturgical services, a psalm of David, the Messiah Himself speaking through his mouth and pen. Cf He...
Psalms 40:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 12:23 ; Acts 12:24 ; Acts 9:4-6 ; Isaiah 41:11 ; Isaiah 45:24 ; John 18:6 ; Matthew 21:38-41 ; Psalms 31:17 ; Psalms 31:18 ; Psalms 35:26 ; Psalms 35:4 ; Psalms 70:2 ; Psalms 70:3 ;...

Psalms 40:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 40:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 40:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 40:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 40:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 40:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 40:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 40:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 40:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 40:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 40:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 40:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 40:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 40:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 40:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 40:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 40:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 40:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 40:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 40:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 40:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 40:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 40:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 40:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 40:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge