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THEY COMPASSED ME ABOUT ALSO WITH WORDS OF HATRED - They attacked me
on every side; they assailed me, not merely in one form and direction,
but in every form, and in every direction. I could turn no 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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WORDS OF HATRED. Written down in verses: Psalms 109:6. Compare 2
Samuel 16:5 for the type.
WITHOUT. CAUSE. Compare John 15:25....
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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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They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against
me without a cause.
THEY COMPASSED ME ABOUT ALSO WITH WORDS OF HATRED - with malicious
charges.
AND FOUGHT AGAINST ME - with...
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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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וְ דִבְרֵ֣י שִׂנְאָ֣ה סְבָב֑וּנִי וַ
יִּֽלָּחֲמ֥וּנִי...
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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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Principality. Christ says, All power is given to me, Matthew xxviii.,
and this he will display (Haydock) in the day of judgment. (St.
Chrysostom) --- Greek: Arche is used in this sense by Xenophon, &c...
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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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3_And they have encompassed me _He complains, that from all quarters
he was assailed with the most hostile and abusive epithets, and that,
too, most undeservedly. And, under a beautiful similitude, he...
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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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THEY COMPASSED ME ABOUT ALSO WITH WORDS OF HATRED,.... They surrounded
him as he hung on the cross, and expressed their malice and hatred
against him; then was he enclosed with these spiteful snarling...
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They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against
me without a cause.
Ver. 3. _They compassed me about also, &c._] So that I could not find
out any way to clear myself, though nev...
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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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They compassed me about also, coming against him from all sides, WITH
WORDS OF HATRED, AND FOUGHT AGAINST ME WITHOUT A CAUSE, without his
having given provocation to them....
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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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WORDS OF HATRED; which, though covered with specious pretences,
proceeded from deep malice and hatred, and were designed to work my
destruction. WITHOUT A CAUSE; without any just provocation given the...
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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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1 Samuel 19:4; 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 26:18; 2 Samuel 15:12; 2