Psalms 40:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 35:21 : 21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.
  • Ps 35:25 : 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, this is what we wanted; let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
  • Ps 69:24-25 : 24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their dwelling place be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents.
  • Ps 70:3-4 : 3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame who say, Aha, aha. 4 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; and let those who love Your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
  • Ps 73:19 : 19 How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
  • Ps 109:6-9 : 6 Set a wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few, and let another take his office. 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner seize all that he has, and let strangers plunder his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the following generation let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be wiped out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth. 16 Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the brokenhearted. 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be to him as the garment that covers him, and as a belt with which he is girded continually. 20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of those who speak evil against my soul.
  • Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side, 44 And will level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.
  • Luke 21:23-24 : 23 But woe to those who are with child and to those who give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 70:2-3
    2 verses
    89%

    2Let them be ashamed and confounded who seek after my soul; let them be turned back and put to confusion, who desire my harm.

    3Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame who say, Aha, aha.

  • Ps 40:14
    82%

    14Let them be ashamed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame who wish me evil.

  • Ps 35:25-27
    3 verses
    81%

    25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, this is what we wanted; let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

    26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt; let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

    27Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause; yes, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

  • Ps 35:21
    77%

    21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

  • Ps 83:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.

    17Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish:

  • Ps 35:4
    76%

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

  • Jer 17:18
    75%

    18Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

  • Ps 71:13
    75%

    13Let them be confounded and consumed who are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor who seek my hurt.

  • Ps 22:7
    74%

    7All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

  • Job 8:22
    74%

    22Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.

  • Ps 109:20
    73%

    20Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of those who speak evil against my soul.

  • Ps 40:16
    73%

    16Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You: let such as love Your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

  • Ps 109:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28Let them curse, but you bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice.

    29Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a cloak.

  • Jer 18:16
    72%

    16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • Ps 35:15
    72%

    15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

  • Isa 66:5
    72%

    5Hear the word of the LORD, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

  • Ps 44:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

    16For the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger.

  • Ps 69:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22Let their table become a snare before them, and what should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

    23Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and make their loins continually to shake.

  • Ps 109:25
    71%

    25I also have become a reproach to them; when they look upon me, they shake their heads.

  • Ps 69:25
    71%

    25Let their dwelling place be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents.

  • Ps 52:6
    71%

    6The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

  • Zeph 2:10
    71%

    10This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

  • Isa 45:16
    71%

    16They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together, those who are makers of idols.

  • Jer 17:15
    71%

    15Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now.

  • Ps 119:78
    71%

    78Let the proud be ashamed, for they treated me wrongfully without a cause; but I will meditate on Your precepts.

  • Ps 25:3
    71%

    3Indeed, let none who wait on You be ashamed; let them be ashamed who transgress without cause.

  • Ps 129:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

    6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:

  • Job 16:10
    71%

    10They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • Ps 31:17
    71%

    17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD, for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

  • Ps 38:16
    71%

    16For I said, 'Hear me, lest otherwise they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.'

  • Jer 18:22
    71%

    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.

  • Lam 2:15
    71%

    15All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

  • Ps 35:19
    70%

    19Let not my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

  • Ps 35:8
    70%

    8Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, and let his net that he has hidden catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Jer 20:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, they say, and we will report it. All my familiar friends watched for my faltering, saying, Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

  • Ps 55:15
    70%

    15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

  • Lam 3:65
    70%

    65Give them sorrow of heart, Your curse upon them.

  • Ps 59:12
    70%

    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Isa 3:9
    70%

    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.