“"In you, Lord, I have taken refuge. I will never be put to shame." I am terrified, you say, of that confusion that lasts forever. There is a certain temporal confusion that is useful: the disturbance of a soul that realizes its sins, is horrified by what it sees and in that horror is ashamed and corrects what it is as…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — EXPOSITIONS OF THE PSALMS 30:2.1:5
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20And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to their face.
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18They shall see him, and despise him; but God shall laugh them to scorn: and they shall hereafter be a vile carcase, and a reproach among the dead for evermore.
19For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; and he shall shake them from the foundation; and they shall be utterly laid waste, and be in sorrow; and their memorial shall perish.