Psalms 109:8
What meaning of the psalms 109:8 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 109:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Let his days be few; and let another take his office.d"
What does Psalms 109:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Let his days be few; and let another take his office.d"
Verse Psalms 109:8. _LET ANOTHER TAKE HIS OFFICE._] The original is פקדתו _pekuddatho_, which the margin translates _charge_, and which literally means _superintendence, oversight, inspection_ from a...
LET HIS DAYS BE FEW - Let him be soon cut off; let his life be shortened. It cannot be wrong for an officer of justice to aim at this; to desire it; to pray for it. How strange it would be for a magis...
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 (Psalms 109:21) The five Psalms...
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 ANOTHER, &C. Quoted, but not _fulfilled_ in Acts 1:20. OFFICE. overseership....
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 his days be few; and let another take his office. LET HIS DAYS BE FEW - even as he plotted to shorten my days; literally, 'be fewnesses.' The wish accords with the divinely-appointed fact (Psa...
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, EVE...
OFFICE. — See Note, Psalms 109:6. Evidently some post of power and influence....
יִֽהְיֽוּ ־יָמָ֥יו מְעַטִּ֑ים פְּ֝קֻדָּתֹ֗ו יִקַּ֥ח אַחֵֽר׃...
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 occasion...
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 his days be few; [and] let another take his (e) office. (e) This was chiefly accomplished in Judas, (Acts 1:20)....
As the authority we have for applying all that is here said in a way of denunciation, to the person of Judas, is derived particularly from the apostle Peter's quoting this passage in direct reference...
_RESPONSIBILITY OF OFFICE_ ‘Let another take his office.’ Psalms 109:8 It is not too much to say that, save in the Athanasian Creed itself, nowhere have Christian people found more widespread spiri...
8_Let his days be few _Although this world is the scene of much toil and trouble, yet we know that these are pledges and proofs of God’s loving-kindness, inasmuch as he frequently, and as a token of h...
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 HIS DAYS BE FEW,.... The days of men in common are but few at most: length of days, either beyond or according to the usual term of life, is reckoned a blessing; and to be cut off in the midst of...
Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office. Ver. 8. _Let his days be few_] Let his execution be hastened, as Haman's was. Ahithophel and Judas were their own deathsmen. Doeg, doubtless, c...
_Let his days be few_ The days of his life. Let him die an untimely death. So did Ahithophel, and so did Judas; both hanging themselves. _And let another take his office_ Made void by his death. This...
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 ow...
OFFICE: Or, charge...
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, whil...
LET HIS DAYS BE FEW; the days of his life. Let him die an untimely death. HIS OFFICE, made void by his death. He also implies that his enemy was a man of power and reputation....
Psalms 109:8 days H3117 few H4592 another H312 take H3947 (H8799) office H6486 his days - Psalms 55:23; Matthew 27:5 another - Acts 1:16-26 office - or, charge...
Psalms 109:8 As often as we keep St. Matthias' Day, we keep the memorial of the sin and misery of the traitor Judas also; and our thoughts are carried back to that severe and awful Psalm, the hundred...
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). “T...
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 109:1). He prays that his accuser...
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...
Acts 1:16; Matthew 27:5; Psalms 55:23...