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AND THEY HAVE REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD - literally, “They have
placed against me.” They have put it in my way; it is what they had
to set before me. See the notes at Psalms 35:12, where the same
expr...
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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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REWARDED ME. set or put against me. Syriac reads "returned me". Not
the same word as in Psalms 109:20, though the same thing is referred
to.
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra_. _a'_. App-44.
FOR MY LOVE. Note here t...
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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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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. AND
THEY HAVE REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD, AND HATRED FOR MY LOVE - (; ; .)...
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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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וַ יָּ֘שִׂ֤ימוּ עָלַ֣י רָ֭עָה תַּ֣חַת
טֹובָ֑ה...
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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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_The Lord. He speaks to God the Father concerning the Messias,
(Menochius) or God assisted the sacred humanity. (St. Chrysostom) ---
In the Godhead the persons are equal. The Father is at the right of...
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If, while we read these words, we call to our recollection Psalms 22:1
and Psalms 69:1, we shall perceive an obvious correspondence. John the
Evangelist tells us, that the Jews charged Christ with bei...
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5_But I gave myself to prayer _(297) Some are of opinion, that these
words refer to David’s pouring out a prayer for his enemies at the
very moment when they were furiously assaulting him, and with th...
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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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AND THEY HAVE REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD,.... For the good words and
sound doctrine he delivered to them; for the good works and miracles
he wrought among them, to the healing of them; see John 10:32....
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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Ver. 5. _And they have rewarded me_] See Psalms 109:4 .
_ Flectere naturam gratia nulla potest._...
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And they have rewarded me evil for good, which he, on his part, showed
toward them in all his dealings, AND HATRED FOR MY LOVE. Having thus
set forth the wickedness of the adversaries, David singles o...
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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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6-20 The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on
some of his enemies, to warn others. When men reject the salvation of
Christ, even their prayers are numbered among their sins. S...
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Psalms 109:5 rewarded H7760 (H8799) evil H7451 good H2896 hatred H8135
love H160
they -...
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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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_They have rewarded me evil for good._
EVIL FOR GOOD
Florence_, _when dominated by the preaching of Savonarola, became
transformed; high-born ladies threw aside their jewels and finery, men
turned fr...
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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 109:5 THEY REWARD ME EVIL FOR GOOD. The Bible
instructs believers not to return evil for evil (Proverbs 20:22;...
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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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2 Samuel 15:12; 2 Samuel 15:31; Genesis 44:4; John 13:18; Luke 22:47;