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Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.
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A Prayer for Conversion
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that this prayer is not simply for revenge. The psalmist asks God to bring shame and defeat upon his enemies for a redemptive purpose: so that they might recognize God's power and be led to seek Him. As Albert Barnes notes, it's a benevolent desire for people to know God, even if it comes through the humbling experience of failure.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Fill their faces with shame — As those who are disappointed and foiled in their plans—such disappointment and confusion commonly ma…
19th Century
Anglican
Your name, O Lord. —Rather, your name (which is) Jehovah. The nations were to seek Him not only as God,…
Baptist
And make them afraid with your storm. Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.
That is the prayer which w…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Fill their faces with shame For their sins, or rather through disappointment, not being able to put their desperate …
All who oppose the kingdom of Christ can read their doom here. God is still the same as He always was: the same to His people, and the same against…
