Psalms 40:14

BSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

Online Parallel Study Bible

Let them be ashamed.The verbs in the preceding verse, in which the psalmist simply prays for deliverance, are in the imperative; but here, and in the following verses, they are in the future tense, and naturally express the language of lively faith and hope, rather than that of wishing the destruction foreseen and predicted.
Psalms 31:17; Psalms 31:18; Psalms 35:4; Psalms 35:26; Psalms 70:2; Psalms 70:3; Psalms 71:13; Isaiah 41:11; Isaiah 45:24
that.
Matthew 21:38-41
driven.
Psalms 9:3; John 18:6; Acts 9:4-6; Acts 12:23; Acts 12:24