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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Let me never be put to confusion" (Psalm 71:1) sounds like the psalmist is afraid of becoming mentally muddled or disoriented.
'Confusion' in the Psalms usually means public shame or disgrace, not mental bewilderment.
Psalm 71:1, in every translation this tool compares.
Psalm 71:1 reads, "In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion." Modern translations render this "let me never be put to shame" (ESV) or "don't let me be disgraced" (NLT). The psalmist isn't worried about being confused in the sense of not understanding something: he's asking God not to let his trust be humiliated, not to let his enemies see him fail and mock him.
This older sense of "confusion" as "disgrace" or "ruin" shows up across the Psalms whenever the writer prays that his enemies be "confounded" or "put to confusion": it's a request for their downfall and shame, not a wish that they get muddled.
