Words of hatred; which, though covered with specious pretences, proceeded from deep malice and hatred, and were designed to work my destruction. Without a cause; without any just provocation given them by me.
THEY COMPASSED ME ABOUT ALSO WITH WORDS OF HATRED - They attacked me on every side; they assailed me, not merely in one form and direction, but in every form, and in every direction. I could turn no 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...
WORDS OF HATRED. Written down in verses: Psalms 109:6. Compare 2 Samuel 16:5 for the type. WITHOUT. CAUSE. Compare John 15:25....
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...
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. THEY COMPASSED ME ABOUT ALSO WITH WORDS OF HATRED - with malicious charges. AND FOUGHT AGAINST ME - with...
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...
וְ דִבְרֵ֣י שִׂנְאָ֣ה סְבָב֑וּנִי וַ יִּֽלָּחֲמ֥וּנִי...
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...
Principality. Christ says, All power is given to me, Matthew xxviii., and this he will display (Haydock) in the day of judgment. (St. Chrysostom) --- Greek: Arche is used in this sense by Xenophon, &c...
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...
3_And they have encompassed me _He complains, that from all quarters he was assailed with the most hostile and abusive epithets, and that, too, most undeservedly. And, under a beautiful similitude, he...
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...
THEY COMPASSED ME ABOUT ALSO WITH WORDS OF HATRED,.... They surrounded him as he hung on the cross, and expressed their malice and hatred against him; then was he enclosed with these spiteful snarling...
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. Ver. 3. _They compassed me about also, &c._] So that I could not find out any way to clear myself, though nev...
_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...
They compassed me about also, coming against him from all sides, WITH WORDS OF HATRED, AND FOUGHT AGAINST ME WITHOUT A CAUSE, without his having given provocation to them....
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...
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...
Psalms 109:3 surrounded H5437 (H8804) words H1697 hatred H8135 fought H3898 (H8735) cause H2600 compassed -...
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...
1 Samuel 19:4; 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 26:18; 2 Samuel 15:12; 2