Salmos 40:14

La Biblia de las Americas

Sean avergonzados y humillados a una los que buscan mi vida para destruirla; sean vueltos atrás y cubiertos de ignominia los que se complacen en mi mal.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Sean avergonzados y confusos � una Los que buscan mi vida para cortarla: Vuelvan atr�s y averg��ncense Los que mi mal desean.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Sean avergonzados y confundidos a una los que buscan mi vida para destruirla; vuelvan atr�s y sean avergonzados los que mi mal desean.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Sean avergonzados y confusos a una los que buscan mi vida para cortarla; vuelvan atr�s y averg��ncense los que mi mal desean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let them be ashamed: The verbs in the preceding verse, in which the psalmist simply prays for deliverance, are in the imperative; but here, and in the following verses, they are in the future tense, and naturally express the language of lively faith and hope, rather than that of wishing the destruction foreseen and predicted. Psalms 31:17, Psalms 31:18, Psalms 35:4, Psalms 35:26, Psalms 70:2, Psalms 70:3, Psalms 71:13, Isaiah 41:11, Isaiah 45:24

that: Matthew 21:38-41

driven: Psalms 9:3, John 18:6, Acts 9:4-6, Acts 12:23, Acts 12:24

Reciprocal: Psalms 6:10 - Let all Psalms 25:3 - let Psalms 44:7 - put them Psalms 53:5 - thou hast Psalms 63:9 - seek Psalms 83:17 - General Psalms 109:20 - Let this Jeremiah 14:3 - they were Jeremiah 17:18 - confounded Jeremiah 20:11 - everlasting Ezekiel 39:2 - I will Luke 13:17 - all his John 8:9 - went out 1 Peter 2:6 - shall

Gill's Notes on the 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 in the glory of the holy angels;

that seek after my soul to destroy it; that is, his life, as did Herod in his infancy, and the Scribes and Pharisees, chief priests and elders of the people of the Jews, frequently, and at last accomplished what they sought after;

let them be driven backward; as those were who came with Judas into the garden to apprehend him, John 18:6;

and put to shame that wish me evil: as did the Jews, who sought all opportunities to ensnare him, and that they might have to accuse him to the Roman governor; and who earnestly desired his crucifixion, and vehemently wished his death; see Psalms 41:5.

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 certainty that they would thus be ashamed and confounded; that is, that they would not be successful, or would be foiled in their purposes. But understood as a wish or prayer, it could not be improper. There is no sin in the wish that the wicked may not be successful in their plans, and may not be suffered to injure us. As the language of the Messiah it was in every way an appropriate prayer that the purposes of those who would defeat his design in coming into the world might be foiled - for on the execution of that design depended the salvation of a lost race.

That seek after my soul to destroy it - That seek after my life; that would destroy me. That is, they seek to kill me; they would take my life before the full time is come. As understood of the Messiah, this would refer to the times when his life was in danger, as it often was, before the full period had arrived for him to die: John 7:6; Matthew 26:18. The purpose of his enemies was to take his life; to prevent the spread of his doctrines; to cheek him in his work. The taking of his life at any time before the full period had arrived, or in any other way than that in which he had purposed to lay it down, would have been a defeat of his work, since in the plan of salvation it was contemplated that he should die at a certain time, and in a certain manner - that he should die at the time which had been predicted by the prophets, and in such a mode as to make an atonement for sin. All this would have been defeated if, before that time came, he had been put to death by stoning, or in any of the numerous ways in which his life was threatened.

Let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that wish me evil - Turned backward, as they are who are unsuccessful, or are defeated. Compare John 18:6.