Let 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.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
4. And what follows? "Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seek after my soul" (ver. 4): for to this end they seek after it, to destroy it. For I would that they would seek it for good! for in another Psalm he blameth this in men, that there was none who would seek after his soul: "Refuge failed me: there was none that would seek after my soul." Who is this that saith, "There was none that would seek after my soul"? Is it haply He, of whom so long before it was predicted, "They pierced My Hands and My Feet, they numbered all My Bones, they stared and looked upon Me, they have parted My Garments among them, and cast lots for My Vesture"? Now all these things were done before their eyes, and there was none who would seek after His Soul. ...
5. ...Many have been confounded to their health: many, put to shame, have passed over from the persecution of Christ to the society of His members with devoted piety; and this would not have been, had they not been confounded and put to sh...
Let them. So most people render the Hebrew, though it may be understood in the future, (Berthier) as Montanus translates. (Haydock)
Me. The wicked shall be confounded in the end, when the just shall triumph. (Worthington)
