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Verse Psalms 109:28. _LET THEM CURSE, BUT BLESS THOU_] See on Psalms
109:20: Of the mode of interpretation recommended there, this verse
gives additional proof....
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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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LET THEM CURSE. As in verses: Psalms 109:6
LET THY SERVANT REJOICE. Thy servant shall rejoice....
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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 them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
WHEN THEY ARISE - namely, against me (; .)
LET THEM BE ASHAMED; BUT LET THY SERVANT REJOICE - ...
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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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(28-31) It is impossible not to notice the anti-climax in these
verses, if they are spoken by the same person as Psalms 109:16, and
directed against the same enemies, of whom the one there singled out...
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יְקַֽלְלוּ ־הֵמָּה֮ וְ אַתָּ֪ה
תְבָ֫רֵ֥ךְ קָ֤מוּ...
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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 DELIVERER OF THE NEEDY
Psalms 109:17
This psalm emphasizes the difference, indicated by our Lord, between
His teaching and that addressed to “them of old time,” especially
on the point of forgive...
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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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Let them (p) curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be
ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
(p) They will gain nothing by cursing me....
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Here we have the blessed Jesus, in his human nature addressing the
Father, as in the days of his flesh. How very interesting to his
people are those cries! How impossible but to take part in them! and...
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28._They shall curse. _Interpreters are divided in their opinions
about the meaning of these words. One class would render them as
expressive of a desire or wish: _Let them curse, provided that thou
b...
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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 THEM CURSE, BUT BLESS THOU,.... Let them curse me, as Shimei did
David, the type of Christ; let them curse themselves, as they did; or
my people: or "let them be cursed", as the Syriac version; cu...
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Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
Ver. 28. _Let them curse, but bless thou_] Yea, the rather, as 2
Samuel 16:12; and I wot well that t...
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_Help me, O Lord my God_ But my hope is, that thou, my God, wilt
seasonably interpose for my relief, and _save me_ Out of my troubles;
_according to thy mercy_ That tender mercy which is wont to exten...
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Let them curse, in a vain attempt to bring evil upon the Lord's
servant, BUT BLESS THOU, since God's blessing more than offsets any
curse on the part of men; WHEN THEY ARISE, in order to carry out the...
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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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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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LET THEM CURSE; I can patiently bear their curses, as being causeless,
and fully compensated by thy blessing. Or, _they do and will curse_, I
expect nothing else from them. ARISE, i.e. bestir themselv...
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Psalms 109:28 curse H7043 (H8762) bless H1288 (H8762) arise H6965
(H8804) ashamed H954 (H8799) servant...
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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 109:21 The psalmist asks for God’s protection
from the attacks. He also asks that the ACCUSERS be disgraced (v.
Psalms 109:29), that is,
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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 16:10; Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 65:13; John 16:22; Numbers 2