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Psalms 40:14

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Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

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  1. Psalms 40:12

    For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

  2. Psalms 40:13

    Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.

  3. Psalms 40:15

    Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

  4. Psalms 40:16

    Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.