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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 109:11

Catch — Heb. ensnare, take away not only by oppression but also by cunning artificers. Stranger — Who hath no right to his goods.

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See also Psalms 109:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 109:11. _LET THE STRANGERS SPOIL HIS LABOUR._] Many of these execrations were literally fulfilled in the case of the miserable Jews, after the death of our Lord. They were not only expel...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LET THE EXTORTIONER CATCH ALL THAT HE HATH - literally, “Let the extortioner cast a snare over all that he hath;” that is, let him seize all his property. The word rendered “catch” - נקשׁ _nâqash_ -...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CATCH. lay. snare for. Compare 1 Samuel 28:9....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LET THE EXTORTIONER CATCH— Or, _Let the usurer extort._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SPOIL] better, 'make spoil of.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET THE EXTORTIONER. — Better, _let the usurer lay traps to catch all that he hath._ So Timon: “Let prisons swallow them, Debts wither them to nothing.”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְנַקֵּ֣שׁ נֹ֭ושֶׁה לְ כָל ־אֲשֶׁר ־לֹ֑ו וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Let (f) the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. (f) He declares that the curse of God lies on the extortioners, who thinking to enrich their children by their...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET THE EXTORTIONER CATCH ALL THAT HE HATH,.... Or, "lay a snare for all" c; as the Romans did, by bringing in their army, invading the land of Judea, and besieging the city of Jerusalem; who are "the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Ver. 11. _Let the extortioner catch all that he hath_] As it were in nets and snares, that is, in bonds, debts, mor...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Let the extortioner catch_, &c. Hebrew, ינקשׁ נשׁה, _jenakkesh nosheh, the creditor_, or _usurer, shall insnare all that he hath:_ that is, take it away, not only by oppression and violence, but by c...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let the extortioner, the heartless creditor, CATCH ALL THAT HE HATH, as in a net or snare; AND LET THE STRANGERS SPOIL HIS LABOR, making that their plunder or booty over which he toiled with so much w...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    EXTORTIONER; or, _usurer_, or _creditor_. _Catch_, Heb. _insnare_, which is an emphatical expression, i.e. take away not only by oppression and violence, but also by cheats and cunning artifices, wher...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 109:11 creditor H5383 (H8802) seize H5367 (H8762) strangers H2114 (H8801) plunder H962 (H8799) labor...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 109:9 CHILDREN... WIFE. The man’s early death (v. Psalms 109:8) would leave his family in poverty (contrast...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Job 18:9; Job 20:18; Job 5:5; Judges 6:3...

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