Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 109:15
Let them, the sins of his parents last mentioned, be before Lord; in God's sight and memory, to provoke God them: let them not be covered or pardoned.
Let them, the sins of his parents last mentioned, be before Lord; in God's sight and memory, to provoke God them: let them not be covered or pardoned.
LET THEM BE BEFORE THE LORD CONTINUALLY - Let their sins never pass from the mind of God. Let him never so forget them as not to inflict punishment for them. THAT HE MAY CUT OFF THE MEMORY OF THEM FRO...
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...
LET THEM BE, &C. This verse is the end of the Parenthesis, which begins with Psalms 109:6....
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...
יִהְי֣וּ נֶֽגֶד ־יְהוָ֣ה תָּמִ֑יד וְ יַכְרֵ֖ת...
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...
All these awful predictions, let the Reader remember, are spoken of a particular person, and that person, we have seen, is Judas. But that the Judas's of every age and generation are equally implicate...
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...
LET THEM BE BEFORE THE LORD CONTINUALLY,.... And not cast behind his back, or into the depths of the sea, never to be seen more, as sins are when forgiven; but be always in sight, as loathsome and abo...
_Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth._ Ver. 15. _Let them be before the Lord_] Stand ever upon record in his presence, to provoke him to wra...
_Let his posterity_, &c. _His posterity shall be cut off_, &c: they suffered an _excision_ by the Roman sword, and _in the generation following, their name_, as a church, and civil polity, were _blott...
Let them be before the Lord continually, the iniquities of the father being unforgotten and unforgiven by the Lord, THAT HE MAY CUT OFF THE MEMORY OF THEM FROM THE EARTH, to the everlasting disgrace o...
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...
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...
Psalms 109:15 continually H8548 LORD H3068 off H3772 (H8686) memory H2143 earth H776 before -...
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....
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...
Amos 8:7; Deuteronomy 32:34; Hosea 7:2; Isaiah 65:15; Jeremiah 2:22;...