Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 109:6
A wicked man — Who will rule him with rigour and cruelty. Satan — To accuse him; for this was the place and posture of accusers in the Jewish courts.
A wicked man — Who will rule him with rigour and cruelty. Satan — To accuse him; for this was the place and posture of accusers in the Jewish courts.
Verse Psalms 109:6. _LET SATAN STAND AT HIS RIGHT HAND._] As the word שטן _satan_ means an _adversary_ simply, though sometimes it is used to express the evil spirit _Satan_, I think it best to preser...
SET THOU A WICKED MAN OVER HIM - This commences the imprecatory part of the psalm, extending to Psalms 109:20. The first thing that the psalmist asks is, that his foe might be subjected to the evil of...
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...
SET THOU. "[saying] Set Thou", &c. See note above. Note the _Parenthesis_ (App-6), verses: Psalms 109:6. AND LET SATAN. And then Satan will. SATAN. an adversary....
SET THOU A WICKED MAN OVER HIM— _Set a wicked one over him, and let an adversary stand at his right hand._ I choose to translate it, says Mudge, by the general word _adversary,_ because it better suit...
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...
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. SET THOU A WICKED MAN OVER HIM - as his superior, armed with judicial authority to execute God's judgment on him. A just retri...
109:6 adversary (e-10) 'Satan,' as 1 Chronicles 21:1 , without the article. The same word, as verb or participle, is in vers. 4,20,29, and Psalms 38:20 ; Psalms 71:13 ....
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...
SATAN] RV 'an adversary.' The word has both meanings in Hebrew. Satan was the accuser who blamed men before God: cp. Job 1:2; Zechariah 3....
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...
SET THOU A WICKED MAN OVER HIM. — This rendering is abundantly confirmed by Leviticus 26:16; Numbers 4:27; Numbers 27:16; Jeremiah 15:3;...
הַפְקֵ֣ד עָלָ֣יו רָשָׁ֑ע וְ֝ שָׂטָ֗ן יַעֲמֹ֥ד...
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...
(c) Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. (c) Whether it was Doeg or Saul, or some familiar friend that had betrayed him, he prays not for private affection, but move...
Ruins. Hebrew and Septuagint, "with dead bodies," (Calmet) or he will fill up the places of the fallen angels. (Jansenius) --- Implevit valles. (St. Jerome) --- Christ was placed for the fall and for...
We cannot be at a loss to discover to whom Christ here refers; when Jesus had dipped the sop at the table, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon; and after the sop, Satan entered into him. He...
6_Set thou over him a wicked person. _(305) Hitherto he poured out his complaint against a vast number of persons; now he seems to direct it against a single individual. Probably he speaks of each 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...
SET THOU A WICKED MAN OVER HIM,.... Or "them", as the Syriac version; over everyone of his adversaries, and all of them: and which may be interpreted, as it is by Cocceius, of tyrannical princes and g...
_Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand._ Ver. 6. _Set thou a wicked man over him_] Whose tender mercies may be cruelties; let the devil be his taskmaster. Thus he pray...
_Set thou a wicked man over him_ Either over all his enemies, speaking of them collectively, or over some one particular enemy, who was worse than any of the rest, more implacable and inexcusable, who...
Set Thou a wicked man over him, a power of punishment, an executioner, to drag him to judgment, AND LET SATAN, in this case practically as the servant of God in carrying out the punishment fixed by Hi...
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...
SATAN: Or, an adversary...
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...
A WICKED MAN, Heb. _the wicked_; which may be understood either, 1. Of some wicked tyrant, which may rule him with rigour and cruelty. Or, 2. Of Satan, who is mentioned in the next clause. Let him b...
Psalms 109:6 Set H6485 (H8685) man H7563 accuser H7854 stand H5975 (H8799) hand H3225 Set thou -...
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...
John 13:2; John 13:27; Matthew 27:4; Matthew 5:25; Zechariah 3:1...