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Psalm 40

Psa. 40:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Let them be desolate
shamem (Hebrew #8074)
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Pronounce: shaw-mame'
Origin: a primitive root
for a reward
`eqeb (Hebrew #6118)
a heel, i.e. (figuratively) the last of anything (used adverbially, for ever); also result, i.e. compensation; and so (adverb with preposition or relatively) on account of
KJV usage: X because, by, end, for, if, reward.
Pronounce: ay'-keb
Origin: from 6117 in the sense of 6119
of their shame
bosheth (Hebrew #1322)
shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol
KJV usage: ashamed, confusion, + greatly, (put to) shame(-ful thing).
Pronounce: bo'-sheth
Origin: from 954
that say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto me, Aha
heach (Hebrew #1889)
aha!
KJV usage: ah, aha, ha.
Pronounce: heh-awkh'
Origin: from 1887 and 253
, aha
heach (Hebrew #1889)
aha!
KJV usage: ah, aha, ha.
Pronounce: heh-awkh'
Origin: from 1887 and 253
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Ah; Aha

Cross References

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desolate.
Psa. 69:24‑25• 24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger take hold of them.
 25Let their habitation be desolate; let there be no dweller in their tents. (Psa. 69:24‑25)
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Psa. 70:3• 3Let them turn back because of their shame that say, Aha! Aha! (Psa. 70:3)
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Psa. 73:19• 19How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors. (Psa. 73:19)
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Psa. 109:6‑20• 6Set a wicked man over him, and let the adversary stand at his right hand;
 7When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let his prayer become sin;
 8Let his days be few, let another take his office;
 9Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;
 10Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;
 11Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;
 12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children;
 13Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:
 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;
 15Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth:
 16Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him.
 17And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him.
 18And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones;
 19Let it be unto him as a garment with which he covereth himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded.
 20Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul. (Psa. 109:6‑20)
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Luke 19:43‑44• 43for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,
 44and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children in thee; and shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation. (Luke 19:43‑44)
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Luke 21:23‑24• 23But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.
 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:23‑24)
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Psa. 35:21,25• 21And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said, Aha! aha! our eye hath seen it.
 25Let them not say in their heart, Aha! so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up. (Psa. 35:21,25)
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Psa. 70:3‑4• 3Let them turn back because of their shame that say, Aha! Aha!
 4Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee, and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified! (Psa. 70:3‑4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Let them be desolate, because ofb their shame, that say unto me, Aha! Aha!

JND Translation Notes

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b
Or "for a reward of."