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Psalm 40:15

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

13Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.
15Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
16Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”
17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
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Notice

“Aha! Aha!” turns another person’s hurt into a victory cry, and the plea for desolation brings the severity of that cruelty before God.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 70:3Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”Both prayers repeat the taunt “Aha! Aha!” and ask that shame overtake those who speak it.
Psalm 35:21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”Both passages quote “Aha! Aha!” as hostile speech directed against the speaker.
Psalm 35:25Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”Both prayers oppose enemies’ delight in the speaker’s downfall, expressed through the taunt “Aha!”
Psalm 69:24–25Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.Both are severe prayers against adversaries: one asks for desolation through shame, the other for God’s anger to overtake them.
Genesis 9:22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.The connection is limited: Genesis describes Ham reporting his father’s nakedness, while the psalm records explicit taunts against someone in distress.
Luke 19:43–44For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,Both settings involve hostile enemies, though Luke describes a siege and the psalm asks for judgment on mockers.
Luke 21:23–24Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.The shared thread is distress and judgment, though Luke warns of coming wrath while the psalm petitions against mockers.
Ezekiel 26:2“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be …Tyre’s “Aha!” over Jerusalem’s ruin echoes the mockers’ delight in the psalm’s surrounding account of people who welcome the speaker’s hurt.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. work conflict. church hurt.

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Pray Psalm 40:13–17 aloud, leaving judgment with God

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Encouragement

Being mocked adds pain to harm already suffered. Here that pain reaches God in a severe prayer for judgment; the sufferer still names the Lord as his help.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).