Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
The verse is a prayer asking God to judge His enemies and fill their faces with shame so that they may seek the name of the Lord. It belongs to the crisis when the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom Israel had spared when coming out of Egypt, came to cast Judah out of the possession God had given them to inherit. It was prayed in confession of helplessness, having no might against the great company and not knowing what to do, with eyes fixed upon the God in heaven who rules over all the kingdoms of the heathen with power and might that none can withstand.
The prayer pleads that God drove out the inhabitants of the land before Israel and gave it to the seed of Abraham forever. It pleads further that He promised to hear and help when evil comes in the form of sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine and they stand before the house where His name dwells and cry to Him in their affliction. The shame is sought so that the enemies will be confounded and put to shame, and all will know Jehovah as the Most High over the earth.
The verse is a prayer asking God to judge His enemies and fill their faces with shame so that they may seek the name of the Lord. It belongs to the crisis when the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom Israel had spared when coming out of Egypt, came to cast Judah out of the possession God had given them to inherit. It was prayed in confession of helplessness, having no might against the great company and not knowing what to do, with eyes fixed upon the God in heaven who rules over all the kingdoms of the heathen with power and might that none can withstand.
The prayer pleads that God drove out the inhabitants of the land before Israel and gave it to the seed of Abraham forever. It pleads further that He promised to hear and help when evil comes in the form of sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine and they stand before the house where His name dwells and cry to Him in their affliction. The shame is sought so that the enemies will be confounded and put to shame, and all will know Jehovah as the Most High over the earth.