Psalms 40:15
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14 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.
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- May those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled at their own shame.
- KJV
- Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
- WEB
- Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
- ASV
- Let them be desolate by reason of their shame That say unto me, Aha, aha.
- DARBY
- Let them be desolate, because of their shame, that say unto me, Aha! Aha!
- BLB
- Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame, those saying to me, “Aha, aha!”
- ÅB
- La dem som sier til meg: «Ha, ha!»
bli forferdet over skammen sin. - OTB
- Måtte de bli forvirret på grunn av sin skam
De som sier til meg, “Aha, aha!” - B1930
- La dem som sier til mig: Ha, ha! forferdes over sin skjensel.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Read in contextPsalms 35:21
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Read in contextPsalms 69:24–25
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Read in contextLuke 19:43–44
For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Read in contextPsalms 70:3–4
Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
Read in contextPsalms 73:19
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Read in contextLuke 21:23–24
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
Read in contextPsalms 109:6–20
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
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