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Verse Psalms 109:13. _LET HIS POSTERITY BE CUT OFF_] It is a fact
that the _distinction_ among the Jewish tribes in entirely lost. Not a
Jew in the world knows from what tribe he is sprung; and as to...
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LET HIS POSTERITY BE CUT OFF - To have a numerous posterity, to have
the name and family perpetuated, was regarded among the Hebrews as one
of the greatest and most desirable blessings. Hence, to pray...
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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 ...
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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...
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THEIR NAME. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "His
name"....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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POSTERITY. — The Hebrew theory of the Divine government was, that if
ruin did not overtake the sinner himself, it would fall on his
posterity; his name would be forgotten, and his race extinct....
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יְהִֽי ־אַחֲרִיתֹ֥ו לְ הַכְרִ֑ית בְּ
דֹ֥ור א֝
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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13._Let his posterity be cut off. _This is a continuation of the same
subject, upon the consideration of which the prophet had just now
entered, that God would visit the iniquities of the fathers upon...
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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...
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LET HIS POSTERITY BE CUT OFF,.... As the seed of the wicked are said
to be, Psalms 37:28, or cut down, as a tree to the very root; as the
Jewish nation was by the axe of God's judgment, which, John sa...
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Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let
their name be blotted out.
Ver. 13. _Let his posterity be cut Off_] _Sit eius exitus excidium,_
so some render it, let his end be d...
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_Let his posterity_, &c. _His posterity shall be cut off_, &c: they
suffered an _excision_ by the Roman sword, and _in the generation
following, their name_, as a church, and civil polity, were _blott...
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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...
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Let his posterity be cut off, by exterminating his family; AND IN THE
GENERATION FOLLOWING, in the second generation, LET THEIR NAME BE
BLOTTED OUT, so annihilated that not even a remembrance would be...
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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...
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Psalms 109:13 posterity H319 off H3772 (H8687) generation H1755
following H312 name H8034 out H4229 (H8735)...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 2:31; 1 Samuel 3:13; 2 Kings 10:10; 2 Kings 10:11;...