Psalms 83:17

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

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WEBBE

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

BSB

May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.

KJV

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

ASV

Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; Yea, let them be confounded and perish;

BBE

Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;

Original Hebrew

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יֵבֹשׁוּ ye·vo·shu may they be ashamed H954 וְיִבָּהֲלוּ ve·yi·ba·ha·lu and they may be dismayed H926 עֲדֵי־ 'a·dei- until H5703 עַד 'ad perpetuity H5704 וְיַחְפְּרוּ ve·yach·pe·ru and may they be abashed H2659 וְיֹאבֵדוּ ve·yo·ve·du and they may perish H6

The early church

"Fill their faces with shame, and they shall seek Your name, O Lord" [Psalm 83:16]. Good and desirable is this which he prophesies for them: and he would not prophesy thus, unless there were even in that company of the enemies of God's people, some men of such kind that this would be granted to them before the last judgment: for now they are mixed together, and this is the body of the enemies, in respect of the envy whereby they rival the people of God. And now, where they can, they make a noise and lift up their head: but severally, not universally as they will do at the end of the world, when the last judgment is about to fall. But it is the same body, even in those who out of this number shall believe and pass into another body (for the faces of these are filled with shame, that they may seek the name of the Lord), as well as in those others who persevere unto the end in the same wickedness, who are made as stubble before the wind, and are consumed like a wood and barren mountains. To these he again returns, saying, "They shall blush and be vexed for ever and ever" [Psalm 83:17]. For those are not vexed for ever and ever who seek the name of the Lord, but having respect unto the shame of their sins, they are vexed for this purpose, that they may seek the name of the Lord, through which they may be no more vexed.

Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 9–18

All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom. God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and the same against his and their enemies. God would make their enemies like a wheel; unsettled in all their counsels and resolves. Not only let them be driven away as stubble, but burnt as stubble. And this will be the end of wicked men. Let them be made to fear thy name, and perhaps that will bring them to seek thy name. We should desire no confusion to our enemies and persecutors but what may forward their conversion. The stormy tempest of Divine vengeance will overtake them, unless they repent and seek the pardoning mercy of their offended Lord. God's triumphs over his enemies, clearly prove that he is, according to his name JEHOVAH, an almighty Being, who has all power and perfection in himself. May we fear his wrath, and yield ourselves to be his willing servants. And let us seek deliverance by the destruction of our fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

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Spurgeon · Verse 17

Where no good result followed, and the men remained as fierce and obstinate as ever, justice was invoked to carry out the capital sentence. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish. What else could be done with them? It was better that they perished than that Israel should be rooted up. What a terrible doom it will be to the enemies of God to be "confounded, and troubled for ever, "to see all their schemes and hopes defeated, and their bodies and souls full of anguish without end: from such a shameful perishing may our souls be delivered.

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