Psalms 109:29

Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

In Context

28They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.

30I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.

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Cross References

Psalms 6:10The Lord hath heard my supplication: the Lord hath received my prayer.

Psalms 109:17But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.

Jeremiah 20:11But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach, which never shall be effaced.

Micah 7:10And my enemy shall behold, and she shall be covered with shame, who saith to me: Where is the Lord thy God? My eyes shall look down upon her: now shall she be trodden under foot as the mire of the streets.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 109:22-31

Humble Petitions; Triumphing in God. 21 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me. 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. 25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. 26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy: 27 That… Read the whole commentary →

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