Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 109:22
I am poor and needy; and therefore a very proper object for thy pity and help. I am wounded not slightly, but to the very heart with soul-piercing sorrows.
I am poor and needy; and therefore a very proper object for thy pity and help. I am wounded not slightly, but to the very heart with soul-piercing sorrows.
Verse Psalms 109:22. _I_ AM _POOR AND NEEDY_] I am _afflicted_ and _impoverished;_ and _my heart is wounded _- my very _life_ is sinking through distress....
FOR I AM POOR AND NEEDY - I am helpless and dependent. I am in a condition where I need thy gracious interposition. AND MY HEART IS WOUNDED WITHIN ME - I am as one that is prostrated by a weapon - as...
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...
POOR. OPPRESSED. Refers to Messiah. Compare Psalms 109:16. See Psalms 40:17; Psalms 69:29; Psalms 70:5;...
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 I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. FOR I AM POOR AND NEEDY - (.) AND MY HEART IS WOUNDED WITHIN ME - with grief (, end; )....
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...
כִּֽי ־עָנִ֣י וְ אֶבְיֹ֣ון אָנֹ֑כִי וְ֝ לִבִּ
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...
Here we have the blessed Jesus, in his human nature addressing the Father, as in the days of his flesh. How very interesting to his people are those cries! How impossible but to take part in them! and...
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 I AM POOR AND NEEDY,.... As he was in human nature, being born of poor parents, brought up in a mean manner, had not where to lay his head, and was ministered to by others; though he was Lord of a...
For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. Ver. 22. _For I am poor and needy_] As a leper showeth his ulcers to move pity, so doth David his indigency and ailments. _ And my heart...
_But do thou for me, O God_ Namely, what I desire, which he expresses in the next clause, saying, _Deliver thou me_ Or, he means, _Do thou act for me;_ be not silent or still, but stir up thyself to w...
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...
For I am poor and needy, this being particularly descriptive of the Messiah in His suffering as our Substitute, AND MY HEART IS WOUNDED WITHIN ME, as when He Himself complained that His soul was excee...
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 109:22 poor H6041 needy H34 heart H3820 wounded H2490 (H8804) within H7130 For I - Psa
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 109:21 The psalmist asks for God’s protection from the attacks. He also asks that the ACCUSERS be disgraced (v. Psalms 109:29), that is,
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 Corinthians 8:9; 2 Kings 4:27; Isaiah 53:3; Job 6:4; John 12:27;...