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Psalms 35:25–26

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Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
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From verse 25

  1. Lamentations 2:16Rank 1 from verse 25
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    16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

  2. Matthew 27:43Rank 2 from verse 25
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    43He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

  3. Psalms 124:3Rank 3 from verse 25
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    3Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

  4. 1 Corinthians 15:54Rank 4 from verse 25
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    54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

  5. 2 Samuel 20:19Rank 5 from verse 25
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    19I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?

From verse 26

  1. Job 8:22Rank 1 from verse 26
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    22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

  2. Psalms 38:16Rank 2 from verse 26
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    16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

  3. Job 19:5Rank 3 from verse 26
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    5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

  4. Psalms 132:18Rank 4 from verse 26
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    18His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

  5. Isaiah 41:11Rank 5 from verse 26
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    11Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

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Psalms 35:25

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

hearts

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The inward lives of persons: their thoughts, understanding, conscience, affections, desires, purposes, will, courage, or disposition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Psalms 35:26

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ashamed

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1. Brought to shame, dishonour, confusion, or disappointed expectation. 2. Feeling or showing shame or embarrassment because of conduct, condition, or exposure. 3. Unwilling or reluctant to own, acknowledge, associate with, or do something because of shame.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

confusion

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Sense 1: Disorder, uncertainty, or lack of understanding. Sense 2: Shame, disgrace, or frustrated defeat. Sense 3: Perverse mingling.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

rejoice

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1. To be glad, take joy, delight, or exult; to express gladness. 2. To make glad or cause to rejoice.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

hurt

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Sense 1: Harm, injury, damage, or loss. Sense 2: To harm, damage, or injure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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clothed

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1. Dressed or covered with garments or another material covering. 2. Figuratively, furnished, arrayed, or characterized with a stated condition or quality.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

shame

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Sense 1: A painful sense of guilt, disgrace, or dishonor. Sense 2: As a verb, to make ashamed or bring disgrace upon.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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dishonour

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1. Shame, disgrace, reproach, or lack of honour. 2. To treat shamefully or without honour.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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35:1PLEAD my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

35:2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

35:3Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

35:4Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.

35:6Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.

35:7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

35:8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

35:9And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

35:10All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

35:11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

35:12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

35:14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

35:16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

35:17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

35:18I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

35:19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

35:20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

35:21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

35:22This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

35:23Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

35:24Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

35:25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

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35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

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35:27Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

35:28And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

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