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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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Cross References

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desolate.
Psa. 69:24‑25• 24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
 25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. (Psa. 69:24‑25)
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Psa. 70:3• 3Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. (Psa. 70:3)
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Psa. 73:19• 19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. (Psa. 73:19)
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Psa. 109:6‑20• 6Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
 7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
 8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
 9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
 10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
 11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
 12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
 13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
 15Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
 16Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
 17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
 18As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
 19Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
 20Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul. (Psa. 109:6‑20)
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Luke 19:43‑44• 43For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
 44And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. (Luke 19:43‑44)
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Luke 21:23‑24• 23But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Luke 21:23‑24)
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Psa. 35:21,25• 21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
 25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, 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 be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
 4Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad 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."