Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 35:26
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify [themselves] against me.
26. A repetition of Psa 35:4, with some variations, occurring again in Psa 40:14.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Let them be ashamed … – See the notes at Psa 35:4.
That magnify themselves against me – Who seek to exalt themselves over me; to make themselves great by humbling and destroying me. They hope to rise on my ruin.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 26. Let them be ashamed] This may be a prophetic declaration against Saul and his courtiers. They were ashamed, confounded, clothed with shame, and dishonoured. All these took place in Saul’s last battle with the Philistines, where he lost his crown and his life, and came to a most dishonourable end.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
As they gathered themselves together to deride and oppose me, so do thou gather them together to destroy them. Or, in like manner, one as well as another; let the proud and great ones of them be disappointed and ashamed as well as the meanest among them.
Themselves; the same ellipsis we have Psa 38:16; 55:12; Jer 48:26. Or, their mouth, as it is expressed, Oba 1:12. So Eze 35:13. That extol themselves and their power, and look upon me with scorn and contempt.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
26. clothedcovered wholly(Job 8:22).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together,…. In a body, as one man; as they gathered together against him, Ps 35:15; so he entreats they might together be brought to shame and confusion, they not being able to execute their designs; their schemes being broken, their counsels defeated, and they exposed to contempt;
that rejoice at mine hurt; the same with his adversity, or halting,
Ps 35:15;
let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me; let them be covered with it, as a man is with a garment; who magnified themselves, opened their mouths in great swelling words of vanity against him, vaunted and bragged over him, as in their power, and at their will.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
26. Let those who rejoice at thy hurt be ashamed and confounded together. This imprecation has already been expounded; and it is only necessary to remark, that there is peculiar force in the expression, together, or at once. It shows that it was not only one or two, but a great multitude, who waged war against him, and that he yielded not to the influence of fear, but believed that as soon as God should lift up his hand, he could at one stroke easily overthrow them all. When it is said that they seek after and rejoice in David’s hurt, this shows that they were filled with cruel hatred against him. And when it is said, that they magnify themselves against him, this is a token of pride. David, therefore, in order to render them more hateful in the sight of God, represents them as filled with pride and cruelty. And as this form of prayer was dictated by the Holy Spirit to David, there can be no doubt that the end of all the proud shall be such as is here predicted, that they shall turn back overwhelmed with shame and disgrace.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
26. Let them be ashamed In this and the connecting verses of the strophe is given the moral sense of all the imprecations in Psa 35:4-8
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.
Ver. 26. Let them be ashamed, &c. ] They shall so; and this prayer against the Church’s enemies shall still speak effectually.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
clothed with shame. Compare Psa 109:29; Psa 132:18.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
ashamed: Psa 35:4, Psa 40:14, Psa 40:15, Psa 71:13, Psa 129:5, Psa 132:18, Isa 41:11, Isa 65:13-15
clothed: Psa 109:28, Psa 109:29, Psa 132:18, Job 8:22, 1Pe 5:5
magnify: Psa 38:16, Psa 55:12, Job 19:5, Jer 48:26, Dan 11:36
Reciprocal: Job 31:29 – General Psa 5:10 – let Psa 6:10 – Let all Psa 25:3 – let Psa 31:17 – wicked Psa 35:15 – in mine Psa 53:5 – thou hast Psa 63:9 – seek Psa 69:6 – Let not Psa 70:2 – Let Psa 83:17 – General Psa 109:19 – as the garment Psa 119:78 – the proud Psa 132:9 – let thy saints Jer 17:18 – confounded Jer 20:11 – everlasting Eze 7:18 – and horror Eze 26:16 – clothe Mic 7:10 – shame Zec 12:7 – do Mal 1:5 – The Lord Mat 27:41 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion {t} together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed {u} with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.
(t) That is, at once, were they never so many or mighty.
(u) This prayer will always be verified against them who persecute the faithful.