Psalms 129:5

“Let them all be confounded, etc.] Or “ashamed”: as all the enemies of God’s people will be sooner or later, either in this world, or however when Christ shall come in the clouds of heaven; or let them be disappointed of their views, aims, and ends, when they will be confounded, as disappointed persons are; and turned back; from pursuing their designs and accomplishing them; as the Assyrian monarch was, who had a hook put into his nose, and a bridle in his lips, and was turned back by the way he came, (<233729>Isaiah 37:29); that hate Zion; the inhabitants of Zion, who are called out of the world, and separated from the men of it, and therefore hated by them; the King of Zion, the Messiah,…”

“Let them all be confounded and turned back ... - This might be rendered in the indicative, “they are ashamed,” but the connection seems to require the rendering in our version. It is a prayer that God would now interpose as he had done in former times, and that he would cause all the haters of Zion to be put to shame as formerly. return to 'Top of Page'”

“be confounded: Psa 83:4-11, Psa 122:6; Est 6:13, Est 9:5; Isa 10:12, Isa 37:22, Isa 37:28, Isa 37:29, Isa 37:35; Zac 1:14-17, Zac 12:3, Zac 12:6; Co1 16:22 Psalms 129:6”