3. Let them be turned back. This is a milder term than
that used in Psalm 40, where he cries, “Let them
be desolate.” Had growing years matured and mellowed the psalmist’s spirit? To be turned back, however, may come to the same thing as to be “desolate”; disappointed malice is
the nearest akin to desolation that can well be conceived. For a reward oftheir shame that say, Aha, aha. They thought to shame the godly, but it was
their shame, and will be their shame forever. How fond people are of taunts,
and if they are meaningless ahas it matters nothing so long as they sting
the victim. Rest assured, the enemies of Christ and his people will be paid in
their own coin; they loved scoffing, and they will become a proverb forever.
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