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Verse Psalms 109:23. _I AM GONE LIKE THE SHADOW_] "I have walked like
the declining shadow,"-I have passed my meridian of health and life;
and as the sun is going below the horizon, so am I about to g...
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I AM GONE LIKE THE SHADOW WHEN IT DECLINETH - See the notes at Psalms
102:11.
I AM TOSSED UP AND DOWN AS THE LOCUST - Agitated, moved, driven about,
as a cloud of locusts is by the wind. The meaning...
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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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I AM TOSSED UP AND DOWN AS THE LOCUST— _I am driven away,_ or
_shaken off like the locust._ Green and Mudge. Dr. Shaw, speaking of
the large and numerous swarms of locusts in Barbary, says, "When the...
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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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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down
as the locust.
I AM GONE LIKE THE SHADOW WHEN IT DECLINETH - (, note.)
I AM TOSSED UP AND DOWN AS THE LOCUST - or, 'I am swept...
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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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SHADOW WHEN IT DECLINETH. — Literally, _a lengthened shade._ (Comp.
Psalms 102:11, and see Note. Song of Solomon 2:17.) When the day
declines the shadow lengthens, it becomes longer and longer, till i...
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כְּ צֵל ־כִּ נְטֹותֹ֥ו נֶהֱלָ֑כְתִּי
נִ֝נְעַ֗רְתִּי...
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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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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down
as the (m) locust.
(m) Meaning that he has no stay or assurance in this world....
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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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23_I walk about as a shadow. _These are two very appropriate
similitudes: to the first of them I formerly adverted in Psalms
102:12; namely, that the afflicted person, and he who is almost
lifeless, i...
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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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I AM GONE LIKE THE SHADOW WHEN IT DECLINETH,.... When the sun is
setting, and the shadow is going off; man's life is often compared to
a shadow, because fleeting, momentary, and soon gone,
1 Chronicl...
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_I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down
as the locust._
Ver. 23. _I am gone like the shadow_] _Abii, perii, evanui,_ I vanish,
as the long shadows do so soon as the sun...
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_I am gone_, &c. Hebrew, נהלכתי, _neehlacheti, I am made to go_,
either, 1st, From place to place; which was David's case when he was
persecuted by Saul and by Absalom, and Christ's case upon earth wh...
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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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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth, toward evening, just
before it is swallowed up by darkness; I AM TOSSED UP AND DOWN AS THE
LOCUST, driven away like grasshoppers before the wind, Exodus 10...
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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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I AM GONE, Heb. _I am made to go_; either,
1. From place to place; which was David's case, when he was persecuted
by Saul and by Absalom; and Christ's case upon earth, where he had no
certain place W...
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Psalms 109:23 gone H1980 (H8738) shadow H6738 lengthens H5186 (H8800)
off H5287 (H8738) locust H697...
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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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1 Chronicles 29:15; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Ecclesiastes 8:13; Exodus
10:13;...
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When — Towards the evening, when the sun is setting. The locust —
Which is easily driven away with every wind....