What Does Psalm 35:26 Mean in the King James?
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse turns their delight in your injury into the garment it asks them to wear: shame.
THE MEANING
When others rejoice at your hurt, this verse gives voice to the demand that their cruelty be exposed as shame and dishonor. Their effort to magnify themselves over you is pictured as a covering of disgrace.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that delighting in your injury makes someone greater: the verse asks that their self-exaltation be answered with shame.
THE ROOT
יִלְבְּשׁוּ
yilbeshū
GROWS FROM
לבש
to put on, wear
“clothed” in this verse is yilbeshū. The Hebrew verb is active: they wear shame and dishonor. The image makes disgrace more than a passing feeling; it becomes the visible covering they put on.
ALSO GROWS
lavash: to put on, wear
לָבַשׁ
This verb form makes the verse’s clothing image explicit: shame is what they are asked to wear.
malbush: garment, clothing
מַלְבּוּשׁ
This noun from the same root shows how the verse pictures disgrace as a covering.
THE PATTERN
Delight in another’s suffering and self-exaltation are exposed as postures that invite disgrace.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.THE THREAD
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.Isaiah uses the same Hebrew root לבש (lavash, “put on, wear”) for being clothed with the garments of deliverance. The shared image places the shame these rejoicers wear beside the covering of deliverance and alignment.
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