Psalms 40:14 - Exposition

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that wish me evil. The remainder of the psalm from this point is detached later on in the Psalter, and becomes a separate psalm—the seventieth. Whether the detachment was the work of David or another, is uncertain. The differences between the two versions are slight (see the comment on Psalms 70:1-5 .). The present verse repeats almost exactly Psalms 35:4 and Psalms 35:26 . It is again repeated, with slight variations, in Psalms 71:13 .