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Verse Psalms 109:2. _THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED AND - THE DECEITFUL ARE
OPENED_ _AGAINST ME_] Many persons are continually uttering calumnies
against me. Thou knowest my heart and its innocence; vindicat...
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FOR THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED AND THE MOUTH OF THE DECEITFUL -
literally, “The mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit.”
This acquaints us with the nature of the wrong which had been done
him. It w...
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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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THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44.
THEY HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST ME. See verses: Psalms 109:6 for what they
spoke....
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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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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
FOR THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED AND THE MOUTH OF THE DECEITFUL ARE OPE...
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109:2 me (d-21) Or 'to me.'...
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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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OF THE DECEITFUL. — Properly, as in margin, _of deceit;_
consequently, to make the two expressions alike, it is proposed to
read, instead of “mouth of the wicked” (properly, _of a wicked
man_)_,_ “mou...
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כִּ֤י פִ֪י רָשָׁ֡ע וּֽ פִי ־מִ֭רְמָה
עָלַ֣י
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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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_Sion. Whence the empire of Christ extended over all the earth, Isaias
ii. 3., and Luke xxiv. 47. (Calmet) --- In spite of opposition, he
reigns in the Church, and will one day make all submit. (Berth...
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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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2_Because the mouth of the wicked _David here very plainly declares,
that he was the more solicitous to obtain help from God, in
consequence of justice not being found among men. And though it is
prob...
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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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FOR THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED AND THE MOUTH OF THE DECEITFUL ARE OPENED
AGAINST ME,.... Or "of deceit" x itself; most wicked and very
deceitful men, who sometimes flattered and pretended friendship, as...
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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Ver. 2. _For the mouth of the wicked_] There is nothing more easy th...
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_The mouth of the wicked, and the mouth of the deceitful_ Of those who
add hypocrisy and perfidiousness to their malice; _are opened against
me_ They speak against me freely, boldly, and publicly, wit...
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for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful, literally,
"of deceit," said in an emphatic statement, ARE OPENED, that is, have
the enemies opened, AGAINST ME, as though in an effort to d...
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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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MOUTH OF THE DECEITFUL:
_ Heb._ of deceit
ARE OPENED:
_ Heb._ have opened themselves...
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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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OF THE DECEITFUL; of those who add hypocrisy and perfidiousness to
their malice. ARE OPENED; they speak freely, boldly, and publicly,
without any fear or shame. AGAINST ME; or, _to or with me_, as thi...
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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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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 15:3; 2 Samuel 17:1; Acts 6:13; Jeremiah 9:3; Jeremiah 9:5;...