Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Ver. 29. As with a mantle] Sicut diploide, saith the Vulgate, as with a doublet, q.d. Let them be doubley ashamed; for which purpose also he here doubleth his prayer.
Verse Psalms 109:29. _LET THEM COVER THEMSELVES_] He here retorts their own curse, Psalms 109:18....
LET MINE ADVERSARIES BE CLOTHED WITH SHAME - Let confusion and disappointment seem to cover them, so as to constitute a garment. See the notes at Psalms 109:18. They had “clothed themselves with cursi...
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 MINE, &C. Contrast this with the malignity of verses: Psalms 109:6 and characterized in verses: Psalms 109:16....
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 mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. LET MINE ADVERSARIES BE CLOTHED WITH SHAME - (). AND LET THEM COVER THEMSELVE...
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...
(28-31) It is impossible not to notice the anti-climax in these verses, if they are spoken by the same person as Psalms 109:16, and directed against the same enemies, of whom the one there singled out...
MANTLE. — Heb., _meîl,_ which was also a garment worn over the tunic....
יִלְבְּשׁ֣וּ שֹׂוטְנַ֣י כְּלִמָּ֑ה וְ יַעֲט֖וּ כַ †...
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...
LET MINE ADVERSARIES BE CLOTHED WITH SHAME,.... This is only explanative of what is said before, AND LET THEM COVER THEMSELVES WITH THEIR OWN CONFUSION AS WITH A MANTLE: the Arabic version is, "as wi...
_Help me, O Lord my God_ But my hope is, that thou, my God, wilt seasonably interpose for my relief, and _save me_ Out of my troubles; _according to thy mercy_ That tender mercy which is wont to exten...
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 Mine adversaries be clothed with shame, on account of the fact that their evil plans miscarried, AND LET THEN COVER THEMSELVES WITH THEIR OWN CONFUSION, AS WITH A MANTLE, with the disgrace which t...
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...
For the disappointment of their wicked hopes and designs, and for that unexpected destruction which they have brought upon themselves....
Psalms 109:29 accusers H7853 (H8802) clothed H3847 (H8799) shame H3639 cover H5844 (H8799) disgrace H1322 mantle
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...
Daniel 12:2; Jeremiah 20:11; Micah 7:10; Psalms 109:17; Psalms 132