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Psalm 70:3

Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”

1For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, LORD.
2Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
3Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”
4Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”
5But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. LORD, don’t delay.
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Notice

“Aha! Aha!” is the sound of people delighting in David’s danger, and his prayer asks God to turn their taunts into shame.

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Where else Scripture says this

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Psalm 40:15Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”Both prayers repeat the taunt “Aha! Aha!” and ask for shame to overtake those who speak it.
Proverbs 24:17–18Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,Both address responses to another person’s downfall: the psalm protests gloating, and Proverbs forbids rejoicing over an enemy’s fall.
Psalm 35:21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”Both psalms quote the hostile cry “Aha! Aha!”, with Psalm 35 adding the speakers’ claim to have seen something.
Acts 1:18Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness; and falling headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines gushed out.The connection is limited: the psalm requests shame for mockers, while Acts records a gruesome death associated with wickedness.
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 ask God to thwart people whose cries of “Aha!” express delight in the speaker’s defeat.
Ezekiel 25:3Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord GOD! The Lord GOD says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary when it was profaned, and against …The taunt “Aha!” appears in both texts, directed against David in the psalm and against God’s sanctuary and people in Ezekiel.
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 …Both texts name gloating through “Aha!”, with Tyre expecting gain from Jerusalem’s devastation and David seeking his mockers’ shame.
Genesis 9:22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.The link is limited: Ham reports his father’s nakedness, while David names mockery and asks for the mockers’ shame.
Job 39:25As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.Both use “Aha!”, though Job describes a horse’s response to battle rather than the human mockery named in the psalm.
Ezekiel 36:2The Lord GOD says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!”’Both quote an enemy’s “Aha!”, with Ezekiel adding a boast of possession and the psalm asking for the taunter’s shame.
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Pray Psalm 70:1–5 aloud with its taunts in view

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Encouragement

The mockery is real, and David asks God to turn the mockers back in shame. His plea leaves their defeat in God’s hands.

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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).