Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 109:11
Let the extortioner. — Better, let the usurer lay traps to catch all that he hath. So Timon:
“Let prisons swallow them,
Debts wither them to nothing.”
Let the extortioner. — Better, let the usurer lay traps to catch all that he hath. So Timon:
“Let prisons swallow them,
Debts wither them to nothing.”
Verse Psalms 109:11. _LET THE STRANGERS SPOIL HIS LABOUR._] Many of these execrations were literally fulfilled in the case of the miserable Jews, after the death of our Lord. They were not only expel...
LET THE EXTORTIONER CATCH ALL THAT HE HATH - literally, “Let the extortioner cast a snare over all that he hath;” that is, let him seize all his property. The word rendered “catch” - נקשׁ _nâqash_ -...
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...
CATCH. lay. snare for. Compare 1 Samuel 28:9....
LET THE EXTORTIONER CATCH— Or, _Let the usurer extort._...
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...
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...
SPOIL] better, 'make spoil of.'...
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...
יְנַקֵּ֣שׁ נֹ֭ושֶׁה לְ כָל ־אֲשֶׁר ־לֹ֑ו 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 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...
Let (f) the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. (f) He declares that the curse of God lies on the extortioners, who thinking to enrich their children by their...
All these awful predictions, let the Reader remember, are spoken of a particular person, and that person, we have seen, is Judas. But that the Judas's of every age and generation are equally implicate...
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 THE EXTORTIONER CATCH ALL THAT HE HATH,.... Or, "lay a snare for all" c; as the Romans did, by bringing in their army, invading the land of Judea, and besieging the city of Jerusalem; who are "the...
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Ver. 11. _Let the extortioner catch all that he hath_] As it were in nets and snares, that is, in bonds, debts, mor...
_Let the extortioner catch_, &c. Hebrew, ינקשׁ נשׁה, _jenakkesh nosheh, the creditor_, or _usurer, shall insnare all that he hath:_ that is, take it away, not only by oppression and violence, but by c...
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 the extortioner, the heartless creditor, CATCH ALL THAT HE HATH, as in a net or snare; AND LET THE STRANGERS SPOIL HIS LABOR, making that their plunder or booty over which he toiled with so much w...
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...
EXTORTIONER; or, _usurer_, or _creditor_. _Catch_, Heb. _insnare_, which is an emphatical expression, i.e. take away not only by oppression and violence, but also by cheats and cunning artifices, wher...
Psalms 109:11 creditor H5383 (H8802) seize H5367 (H8762) strangers H2114 (H8801) plunder H962 (H8799) labor...
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....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 109:9 CHILDREN... WIFE. The man’s early death (v. Psalms 109:8) would leave his family in poverty (contrast...
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...
Job 18:9; Job 20:18; Job 5:5; Judges 6:3...
Catch — Heb. ensnare, take away not only by oppression but also by cunning artificers. Stranger — Who hath no right to his goods....