because that he, the chief and representative enemy, remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, one who was already bowed down with suffering, that he might even slay the broken in heart. The Messianic character of this passage is seen from the corresponding section of Psalms 69, especially vv. 20-29.
Verse Psalms 109:16. _PERSECUTED THE POOR AND NEEDY MAN_] In the case of Jesus Christ all the dictates of justice and mercy were destroyed, and they persecuted this poor man unto death. They acted fro...
BECAUSE THAT HE REMEMBERED NOT TO SHOW MERCY - He had no compassion; he was severe, harsh, unjust, unfeeling. BUT PERSECUTED THE POOR AND NEEDY MAN - The man that was destitute of friends; that was a...
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...
Psalms 109:16 is. return to the subject of verses: Psalms 109:1, and by the same speaker of verses: Psalms 109:1. THE POOR. an oppressed one ...
THAT HE MIGHT EVEN SLAY THE BROKEN IN HEART— _And broken in heart, to slay him._...
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...
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. -God's visitation on the wicked man's property (Psalms 109:11); on his name and memorial (Psalms 109:13). The ins...
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...
POOR. — The Hebrew word thus rendered, viz., ‘_anî,_ has suggested a reference to the murder of the high priest Onias (2Ma. 4:34-36)....
יַ֗עַן אֲשֶׁ֤ר ׀ לֹ֥א זָכַר֮ עֲשֹׂ֪ות חָ֥סֶד...
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...
Because that (h) he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. (h) He shows that God plagues them in a strange way who show them...
How beautiful, by way of further illustration, doth this verse here come in! Judas's crime, and that of the whole Jewish nation with him, was the rejection of Christ, the truly poor and needy man, who...
16._Because he forgot to show mercy _The prophet comes now to show that he had good reason for desiring such awful and direful calamities to be inflicted upon his enemies, whose thirst for cruelty was...
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...
BECAUSE THAT HE REMEMBERED NOT TO SHOW MERCY,.... As Judas did not; neither to the poor, whom he cared not for, John 12:6 nor to Christ, whom he betrayed with a kiss to his enemies: nor had these word...
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. Ver. 16. _Because that he remembered not to show mercy_] Here the pro...
_Because he remembered not_ “The crime which brought upon its perpetrators all the above-mentioned judgments and calamities, is here pointed out too plainly to be mistaken. _They remembered not to sho...
21-31 The psalmist takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner. He was troubled in mind. His body was wasted, and almost worn away. But it is better to have leanness in the body, whi...
REMEMBERED NOT his duty to God, and his obligation to me my former kindness, expressed PSALMS 109:4,5. THE POOR AND NEEDY MAN; myself, who was desolate and miserable, whose required pity, and not addi...
Psalms 109:16 remember H2142 (H8804) show H6213 (H8800) mercy H2617 persecuted H7291 (H8799) poor H6041 needy...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 109:6 The psalmist asks God to defend him by bringing on his enemies the troubles they deserve. The WICKED MAN and ACCUSER (v....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 109:16 DID NOT REMEMBER TO SHOW KINDNESS. This is the explanation for the punishment prayed for in v. Psalms 109:12. The surest evidence of a per
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 16:11; 2 Samuel 16:12; 2 Samuel 17:1; 2 Samuel 17:2;...