Commentaire sur Les Psaumes 6:11

shall be ashamed and very frightened, etc. What is the meaning of “they shall return and be ashamed” a second time? Said Rabbi Johanan: In the future the Holy One, blessed be He, will judge the wicked of the nations of the world and sentence them to Gehinnom. Because they will complain to Him, He will take them back and again show them their records, and He returns them to Gehinnom. This is a double embarrassment. Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachmani says: In the future, every nation will call to its god, but it will not answer. Consequently, they will call to the Holy One, blessed be He. He will say to them, “Had you called Me first, I would have answered you. Now you have made the idols of primary importance and Me of secondary import. Therefore, I will not answer,” for it is stated (below 18:42): “They pray, but no one saves them.” This refers to the idols, and afterward, “to the Lord, but He answered them not.” Therefore, it is said: “they shall return and be ashamed.”

All my enemies shall be ashamed and sore vexed: – When I am healed all my enemies who were looking for my death shall be ashamed and vexed.

in a moment In a short time.

They shall return, they shall be ashamed in a moment: – When they see that their scheme has not come about, they shall return to me to be at peace with me, and in that moment there shall be shame to them because of me.