Psalms 31:17 - Exposition

Let me not be ashamed, O Lord (see the comment on verse l). For I have called upon thee . "I have," i.e; "been ever thy true worshipper." Even when I have sinned ( Psalms 31:10 ), my sins have not been "sins of unfaithfulness," but lapses, sins of infirmity, unpremeditated yieldings to temptation. Let the wicked be ashamed . Bring shame, i.e; upon those who are at once my enemies and thine—the wicked and impenitent generally—and, among them on my present adversaries, those who are collected together to carry on war against me. And let them be silent in the grave; or, in Sheol . Let a stop be put to their slanders ( Psalms 31:13 ) and lying speeches ( Psalms 31:18 ); let them he silenced by removal from this world to the land of the departed.