Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. So be it. Chal. “Amen.” This word, at the beginning of a discourse, implies an affirmative oath; (Matthew 6:13) and at the end, it is a mark of approbation. Numbers 5:22.—Here the Jews terminate the first book of the psalms, which they divide into five. Calmet.—S. Jerom rejects this division, as our Saviour mentions only the psalms, and the last psalm has no such conclusion. Worthington.—It has Alleluia. All the rest have Amen. See Psalms 72. 89 and 106. Hebrew Bert.—The observations which have been made in this first part, will serve to explain many other passages, on which we shall therefore be shorter, as well as in specifying the variations from the original, which are for the most part only apparent, as the intelligent reader may be convinced, by the preceding remarks. Bible.