Let 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.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
18. "O Lord, let me not be confounded, for I have called upon Thee" (ver. 17). O Lord, let me not be put to shame by those who insult me, for that I have called upon Thee. "Let the ungodly be ashamed, and be brought down to hell." Let them rather who call upon stones be ashamed, and made to dwell with darkness.
Brought. Protestants, "be silent in the grave "(Haydock) or "in hell. "This is a prediction. When I shall ascend the throne, they will be covered with shame. (Calmet)
Let them enter into themselves before they die. (Haydock)
Houbigant thinks that the Hebrew had formerly, "let them be silent, and descend into the grave "which seems judicious. David inveighs against his spiritual enemies, and against manifest impiety. (Berthier)
