aMy iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;
They are more than the hairs of my head;
Therefore my heart fails me.
Who seek to destroy my1 life;
Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor
Who wish me evil.
Let such as love Your salvation bsay continually,
“The Lord be magnified!”
bYet the Lord thinks upon me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.
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Psalms 40:14-15
The language is not necessarily imprecatory, but rather a confident expectation (Psalms 5:11), though the former sense is not inconsistent with Christ's prayer for the forgiveness of His murderers, inasmuch as their confusion and shame might be the very means to prepare them for humbly seeking forgiveness (compare Acts 2:37).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Psalms 40:14:
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