Sion. Whence the empire of Christ extended over all the earth, Isaias ii. 3., and Luke xxiv. 47. (Calmet) --- In spite of opposition, he reigns in the Church, and will one day make all submit. (Berthier) --- On Whitsunday the new law was promulgated, to continue unto the end of time. (Worthington)
Verse Psalms 109:2. _THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED AND - THE DECEITFUL ARE OPENED_ _AGAINST ME_] Many persons are continually uttering calumnies against me. Thou knowest my heart and its innocence; vindicat...
FOR THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED AND THE MOUTH OF THE DECEITFUL - literally, “The mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit.” This acquaints us with the nature of the wrong which had been done him. It w...
PSALM 109-113 Psalms 109 Christ in Humiliation _ 1. Despised and rejected (Psalms 109:1)_ 2. The rejectors and their fate (Psalms 109:6) 3. The Christ in His sorrow ...
CIX. A PSALM OF CURSING. This Ps. is further than anything else in the whole Psalter from the spirit of Christianity. It falls into three parts: Psalms 109:1. The Psalmist's distress in persecution; P...
THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. THEY HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST ME. See verses: Psalms 109:6 for what they spoke....
PSALMS 109 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE David, Rehearsing how His Enemies have Cursed him, Refers his Cause to Jehovah. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 109:1-5, The Psalmist Entreats Jehovah to speak up for him ag...
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. FOR THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED AND THE MOUTH OF THE DECEITFUL ARE OPE...
109:2 me (d-21) Or 'to me.'...
The strongest of the imprecatory Pss. (see Intro.). Probably it is just to regard the Psalmist as speaking in the name of the whole nation, vexed and harried by foreign enemies, e.g. Antiochus Epiphan...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ A MAN WITH TROUBLE PSALMS 109 Jesus said, "You will be happy when people are not kind to you and do bad things to you. You will be happy because you love me, ev...
OF THE DECEITFUL. — Properly, as in margin, _of deceit;_ consequently, to make the two expressions alike, it is proposed to read, instead of “mouth of the wicked” (properly, _of a wicked man_)_,_ “mou...
כִּ֤י פִ֪י רָשָׁ֡ע וּֽ פִי ־מִ֭רְמָה עָלַ֣י
Psalms 109:1 THIS is the last and the most terrible of the imprecatory psalms. Its central portion (Psalms 109:6) consists of a series of wishes, addressed to God, for the heaping of all miseries on t...
THE PERSECUTOR OF THE NEEDY Psalms 109:1 This psalm is like a patch of the Sahara amid a smiling Eden. But, terrible as the words are, remember that they were written by the man who, on two occasions...
This is a psalm full of interest. The singer is in a place of terrible suffering due to the implacable hostility of his foes. The passage containing the imprecations (vv. Psa 109:6-19) contains the si...
If, while we read these words, we call to our recollection Psalms 22:1 and Psalms 69:1, we shall perceive an obvious correspondence. John the Evangelist tells us, that the Jews charged Christ with bei...
2_Because the mouth of the wicked _David here very plainly declares, that he was the more solicitous to obtain help from God, in consequence of justice not being found among men. And though it is prob...
Psalms 109. It is certain that this psalm applies to Judas; but we shall see, in reading it, that we cannot apply all of it exclusively to him. And this is a help to us, to understand the way in which...
FOR THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED AND THE MOUTH OF THE DECEITFUL ARE OPENED AGAINST ME,.... Or "of deceit" x itself; most wicked and very deceitful men, who sometimes flattered and pretended friendship, as...
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. Ver. 2. _For the mouth of the wicked_] There is nothing more easy th...
_The mouth of the wicked, and the mouth of the deceitful_ Of those who add hypocrisy and perfidiousness to their malice; _are opened against me_ They speak against me freely, boldly, and publicly, wit...
for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful, literally, "of deceit," said in an emphatic statement, ARE OPENED, that is, have the enemies opened, AGAINST ME, as though in an effort to d...
LAMENT OF THE RIGHTEOUS AGAINST TRAITORS AND ENEMIES. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical part of worship, a psalm of David, in which he indeed may have reference to conditions of his own...
MOUTH OF THE DECEITFUL: _ Heb._ of deceit ARE OPENED: _ Heb._ have opened themselves...
6-20 The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on some of his enemies, to warn others. When men reject the salvation of Christ, even their prayers are numbered among their sins. S...
OF THE DECEITFUL; of those who add hypocrisy and perfidiousness to their malice. ARE OPENED; they speak freely, boldly, and publicly, without any fear or shame. AGAINST ME; or, _to or with me_, as thi...
Psalms 109:2 mouth H6310 wicked H7563 mouth H6310 deceitful H4820 opened H6605 (H8804) spoken H1696 (H8765) lying...
CONTENTS: Complaint of the malice of enemies and appeal to the righteous God for judgment. CHARACTERS: God, David, Satan. CONCLUSION: When enemies are spiteful and malicious, it is the unspeakable c...
Psalms 109:6. _Set thou a wicked man over him._ This cannot apply to Ahithophel; he was already his own executioner. _Let Satan,_ that is, an adversary, stand at his right hand, to accuse him, as Doëg...
_Hold not Thy peace, O God of my praise._ A SONG OF IMPRECATION I. The misdeeds of the wicked (Psalms 109:1). II. The imprecation of wrath (verses 6-20). III. The cry for mercy (Psalms 109:21). “Th...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 109:1. This is an individual lament. A faithful Israelite is being attacked in return for the good he has done to his attackers (vv. Psalms
INTRODUCTION “This,” says Perowne, “is the last of the Psalms of imprecation, and completes the terrible climax. In the awfulness of its anathemas, the Psalm surpasses everything of the kind in the O...
EXPOSITION THE title of this psalm—"To the chief musician, a psalm of David"—is thought to be not inappropriate. We may have here David's own appeal to God against his persecutors, and especially agai...
Psa 109:1-31 makes me glad that I'm not an enemy of David. For this is one of those psalms where he really takes off again against his enemies, and I mean he goes after them with tongs. Hold not thy...
2 Samuel 15:3; 2 Samuel 17:1; Acts 6:13; Jeremiah 9:3; Jeremiah 9:5;...