Psalms 71:13

Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and shame that seek my hurt.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

In Context

12O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help.

14But I will always hope; and will add to all thy praise.

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Cross References

Esther 9:2And they gathered themselves together in every city, and town, and place, to lay their hands on their enemies, and their persecutors. And no one durst withstand them, for the fear of their power had gone through every people.

Psalms 35:4Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise against me.

Psalms 40:14Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me, look down, O Lord, to help me.

Psalms 71:24Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.

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.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 71:2-14

David Professes His Confidence in God; Believing Prayers. 1 In thee, O Lord , do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. 2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. 3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. 4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 5 For thou art my hope, O Lord God :… Read the whole commentary →

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