Let the proud be ashamed
The same persons he before speaks of as accursed, who had him in
derision, and forged a lie against him. Here he prays that they
might be ashamed of their scoffs and jeers, of their lies and
calumnies, the evils and injuries they had done him; that they
might be brought to a sense of them, and repentance for them;
when they would be ashamed of them in the best manner: or that
they might be disappointed of their ends, in what they had done,
and so be confounded and ashamed, as men are when they cannot
gain their point; or be brought to shame and confusion eternally;
for they dealt perversely with me without a
cause;
or, "they perverted me [with] falsehood" F23; that
is, they endeavoured to pervert him with lies and falsehood, and
lead him out of the right way; or they attempted, by their lies
and calumnies, to make him out to be a perverse and wicked man,
and pronounced and condemned him as such, without any foundation
or just cause for it;
[but] I will meditate in thy precepts;
he was determined, in the strength of grace, that those ill
usages should not take off his thoughts from religious things, or
divert him from his duty to his God: none of these things moved
him; he still went on in the ways of God, in his worship and
service, as Daniel did, when in like circumstances.