Let them all be confounded and turned back ... - This might be rendered in the indicative, “they are ashamed,” but the connection seems to require the rendering in our version. It is a prayer that God would now interpose as he had done in former times, and that he would cause all the haters of Zion to be put to shame as formerly.
Related Commentaries of Psalms 129:5
Psalms 129:5
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.