Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 109:25
Verse Psalms 109:25. When they looked upon me they soaked their heads.] Thus was David treated by Shimei, 2 Samuel 16:5, and our blessed Lord by the Jews, Matthew 27:39.
Verse Psalms 109:25. When they looked upon me they soaked their heads.] Thus was David treated by Shimei, 2 Samuel 16:5, and our blessed Lord by the Jews, Matthew 27:39.
I BECAME ALSO A REPROACH UNTO THEM - They reproached or reviled me as a bad man. Compare the notes at Psalms 22:6. The plural here - “unto them” - shows that there were more than one to whom the psalm...
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...
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...
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. I BECAME ALSO A REPROACH UNTO THEM - (Psalms 22:6; .) Hebrew, 'and I' emphatically: I, who ought to have been...
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...
וַ אֲנִ֤י ׀ הָיִ֣יתִי חֶרְפָּ֣ה לָהֶ֑ם יִ֝רְא֗וּנִי...
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...
I BECAME ALSO A REPROACH UNTO THEM,.... Or they reproached him; not only in life, traducing his conversation, blaspheming his miracles, calling him a Samaritan, saying he had a devil, and charging him...
I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads. Ver. 25. _I became also a reproach_] In respect to my leanness. _ They shaked their heads_] This is threatened...
_My knees are weak through fasting_ Either through forced fasting for want of food, when he was persecuted, or for want of appetite when he was sick, or through voluntary fasting, which the frequency...
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...
I became also a reproach unto them, Psalms 69:11; Matthew 27:39; WHEN THEY LOOKED UPON ME, THEY SHAKED THEIR HEADS....
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...
Instead of that pity which either religion or humanity should have taught them to a man in extreme misery, they loaded me with reproaches and scorns. SHAKED THEIR HEADS; a gesture of contempt and deri...
Psalms 109:25 reproach H2781 look H7200 (H8799) shake H5128 (H8686) heads H7218 a reproach -...
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...
Hebrews 12:2; Hebrews 13:13; Isaiah 37:22; Job 16:4; Matthew 27:39;...