Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 109:21
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy (l) name's sake: because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me.
(l) As you are named merciful, gracious and long suffering, so show yourself in effect.
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy (l) name's sake: because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me.
(l) As you are named merciful, gracious and long suffering, so show yourself in effect.
Verse Psalms 109:21. _BUT DO THOU FOR ME_] While they use horrible imprecations against me, and load me with their curses, _act thou_ _for me_, and _deliver me_ from their maledictions. While they _cu...
BUT DO THOU FOR ME, O GOD THE LORD, FOR THY NAME’S SAKE - That is, Interpose for me; exert thy power in my behalf. The phrase “for thy name’s sake” implies that the motive which prompted him was a des...
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...
GOD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. THE LORD. Hebrew Adonai. App-4. NAME'S. See note on Psalms 20:1....
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...
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me. BUT DO THOU FOR ME, O GOD THE LORD, FOR THY NAME'S SAKE. Supply to 'do thou for thy name's sake'...
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...
DO THOU FOR ME. — It is almost impossible in English to retain the emphasis of this appeal, made still more emphatic by the sudden change from imprecation on an enemy to prayer for mercy towards self....
וְ אַתָּ֤ה ׀ יְה֘וִ֤ה אֲדֹנָ֗י עֲֽשֵׂה ־אִ֭תִּי...
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...
21_And thou, O Jehovah my Lord! _From the pouring out of complaints and imprecations against his enemies, the Psalmist passes to prayers; or rather, after having betaken himself to God as his guardian...
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...
BUT DO THOU FOR ME, O GOD THE LORD, FOR THY NAME'S SAKE,.... The sense of the petition is, and which is a prayer of Christ as man, that the Lord God would take his part, be on his side, be present wit...
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me. Ver. 21. _But do thou for me_] _Fac mecum, sis mihi a latere,_ stick to me, act on my behalf, an...
_But do thou for me, O God_ Namely, what I desire, which he expresses in the next clause, saying, _Deliver thou me_ Or, he means, _Do thou act for me;_ be not silent or still, but stir up thyself to w...
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...
But do Thou for me, O God the Lord, taking his part, showing him blessings, FOR THY NAME'S SAKE; BECAUSE THY MERCY, the grace of Jehovah, the God of salvation, IS GOOD, the source and foundation of al...
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...
DO THOU FOR ME, to wit, what I desire, which he expressing the next clause. Or, _do thou act for me_; be not or still, but stir up thyself to work on my behalf. FOR MY NAME'S SAKE; for the glory of th...
Psalms 109:21 GOD H3069 Lord H136 Deal H6213 (H8798) names H8034 mercy H2617 good H2896 deliver H5337 ...
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...
_But do Thou for me, O God the Lord, for Thy name’s sake._ AN EXEMPLARY PRAYER I. It is true in its direction. It is addressed to “God the Lord.” There is but One all-suffering Being to whom we can a...
_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...
John 17:1; Philippians 2:8; Psalms 143:11; Psalms 143:12; Psalms
Is good — Above the mercy of all the creatures....