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Verse Psalms 109:9. _LET HIS CHILDREN BE FATHERLESS, C._] It is said
that Judas was a married man, against whom this verse, as well as the
preceding is supposed to be spoken and that it was to support...
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LET HIS CHILDREN BE FATHERLESS - Hebrew, “his sons.” This is what
“always” occurs when a criminal who is a father is executed. It is
one of the consequences of crime; and if the officer of justice doe...
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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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CHILDREN. sons....
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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 his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his
children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
LET HIS CHILDREN BE FATHERLESS, AND HIS WIFE A WIDOW. There is a
regular progression. Hav...
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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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CHILDREN... WIFE. — It is one of the sadly peculiar features of this
series of curses that the resentment of the imprecator cannot satisfy
itself on the _person_ of his foe, but fastens also on his in...
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יִֽהְיוּ ־בָנָ֥יו יְתֹומִ֑ים וְ֝
אִשְׁתֹּו אַלְמָנָֽה׃...
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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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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 CHILDREN BE FATHERLESS, AND HIS WIFE A WIDOW. This sometimes
is the case of good men, who leave widows and fatherless children,
whom the Lord shows mercy to; being the Father of the fatherless...
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Ver. 9. _Let his children be fatherless_] Helpless and shiftless. A
sore vexation to many on their death beds, and just enough on
graceless perse...
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_Let his children be_ Hebrew, יהיו בניו _jihju banaiv, his
children shall be fatherless_ Namely, while they are but children, and
so are unable to provide for themselves; _and his wife a widow_ Made a...
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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 children be fatherless, orphaned by his violent death, AND HIS
WIFE A WIDOW, his family sharing in the punishment of his guilt....
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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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FATHERLESS; whilst they are but children, and so unable to provide for
themselves. A WIDOW; either made a widow by his death; or constantly a
widow; all persons abhorring her who was related to so vil...
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Psalms 109:9 children H1121 fatherless H3490 wife H802 widow H490
Exodus 22:24;...
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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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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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Exodus 22:24; Jeremiah 18:21; Lamentations 5:3...