Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 109:20
Of mine adversaries; of those who were confederate with that arch enemy in his wicked enterprise. Against my soul; with design to take away my life.
Of mine adversaries; of those who were confederate with that arch enemy in his wicked enterprise. Against my soul; with design to take away my life.
Verse Psalms 109:20. LET _THIS_ BE _THE REWARD OF MINE ADVERSARIES FROM THE_ _LORD, AND OF THEM THAT SPEAK EVIL AGAINST MY SOUL._] Following the mode of interpretation already adopted, this may mean:...
LET THIS BE THE REWARD OF MINE ADVERSARIES FROM THE LORD,... - The word rendered “reward” means usually work, labor, occupation, business; then, what one earns by his work - reward, recompence, Leviti...
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 THIS BE. This is. Psalms 109:16 is. return to the subject of verses: Psalms 109:1, and by the same speaker of verses: Psalms 109:1. REWARD. work. Not the same word as in...
LET THIS BE THE REWARD, &C.— _This shall,_ or _will be the reward,_ &c. Thus David, in prophesy, foresees that the curses vented by his enemies against himself, would reverberate upon their own heads....
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...
109:20 reward (a-5) Lit. 'the [work] wrought;' 'wages,' Leviticus 19:13 ....
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...
REWARD. — Either “work” or “wages.” The LXX. and Vulg. take it in the former sense, “This is their work who,” &c....
זֹ֤את פְּעֻלַּ֣ת שֹׂ֭טְנַי מֵ אֵ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וְ
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 DELIVERER OF THE NEEDY Psalms 109:17 This psalm emphasizes the difference, indicated by our Lord, between His teaching and that addressed to “them of old time,” especially on the point of forgive...
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...
[Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries (k) from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul. (k) For being destitute of man's help, he fully trusted in the Lord, that he would deliv...
The continuation of the awful consequences of the rejection of Christ, by Judas and his family, is here set forth; and the passage closeth with an assurance that it shall be so. And here I must again...
20_Let this be the work from Jehovah. _That is, let the gain or reward of the work be from God. In pointing out the work as proceeding immediately from God, he intends to show that, though deprived of...
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 THIS BE THE REWARD OF MINE ADVERSARIES FROM THE LORD,.... Who were so many Satans, as the word used signifies; and Judas particularly is called a devil; and of the same malevolent and diabolical d...
Psalms 109:20 [Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul. Ver. 20. _Let this be the reward_] _Opus vel operae precium._ The same Hebrew...
_As he loved cursing_ To curse others, as appears from the blessing here opposed to it, and from the next verse; to wish and to procure mischief to others; _so let it come unto him_ Hebrew, תבואהו, _t...
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...
Let this be the reward, the well-deserved punishment, OF MINE ADVERSARIES FROM THE LORD, AND OF THEM THAT SPEAK EVIL AGAINST MY SOUL, in repaying the love shown them with enmity in word and deed. They...
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 109:20 LORDS H3068 reward H6468 accusers H7853 (H8802) speak H1696 (H8802) evil H7451 person H5315...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:3; 1 Kings 2:44; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16;...
That speak evil against my soul — With design to take away my life....