Psalms 40:15

Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame,.... Of their shameful wishes, words, and actions, as they were: their habitations in Jerusalem were desolate, and so was their house or temple there,…

Let them be desolate - The word here employed means to be astonished or amazed; then, to be laid waste, or made desolate. As used here, it refers to their purposes, and the wish or prayer is that they…

The psalmist, having meditated upon the work of redemption, and spoken of it in the person of the Messiah, now comes to make improvement of the doctrine of his mediation between us and God, and…

R.V., Let them be desolate (Lam 1:16) by reason of their shame, the defeat of their malicious plans: or, less probably, let them be astonished(Lev 26:32) for a reward of their shame, at the shame…