Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 109:31
For he... — Jehovah is the poor man’s advocate, just as an adversary was the wicked man’s accuser.
For he... — Jehovah is the poor man’s advocate, just as an adversary was the wicked man’s accuser.
Verse Psalms 109:31. _HE SHALL STAND AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE POOR_] Even if Satan himself be the accuser, God will vindicate the innocence of his servant. Pilate and the Jews condemned our Lord to de...
FOR HE SHALL STAND AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE POOR - He will thus show that he befriends the poor and the helpless. TO SAVE HIM FROM THOSE THAT CONDEMN HIS SOUL - - Margin, “from the judges of his soul...
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 ...
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...
HE SHALL STAND, &C. Contrast this with Psalms 109:6. POOR. needy. Not the same word as in Psalms 109:16. CONDEMN HIS SOUL. Compare the Structure, Psalms 109:20, with...
HE SHALL STAND AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE POOR— That is, _to defend,_ and _plead for him._ As the accuser stood at the right hand, Psalms 109:6 so shall God also stand there, as this poor and distressed...
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...
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. FOR HE SHALL STAND AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE POOR, TO SAVE HIM FROM THOSE THAT CONDEMN HIS SOUL. So co...
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...
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...
כִּֽי ־יַ֭עֲמֹד לִ ימִ֣ין אֶבְיֹ֑ון לְ֝ הֹושׁ
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...
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...
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...
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that (r) condemn his soul. (r) By this he shows that he had nothing to do with them who were of little power, but with the j...
PSALM CIX. (DIXIT DOMINUS.) Christ's exultation, and everlasting priesthood....
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, my soul, over the contents of this very, very solemn Psalm. Behold in the traitor Judas, the head and representative of all the despisers of Jesus, the awful but sure consequences o...
Concerning Christ, we know, that it was prophesied of him, that he had set the Lord always before him, for he was at his right hand, that he should not be moved, Psalms 16:8. And of him, and him only,...
Moreover, he also subjoins the form in which he rendered thanks; namely, _that God stood at the right hand of the poor _By this language he intimates, that when God had apparently forsaken and abandon...
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...
FOR HE SHALL STAND AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE POOR,.... Of the Messiah, as in Psalms 109:22 at whose right hand the Lord was, to guide and direct, help and assist, protect and defend, Psalms 16:8, or of...
_For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that condemn his soul._ Ver. 31. _For he shall stand at the right hand_] As a faithful and powerful (παραστατης or υπεραπισ...
_I will greatly praise the Lord_ For that deliverance which I confidently expect; _with my mouth_ Not only with my heart, in secret, but with my mouth, openly; _and among the multitude_ Or, _among the...
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...
For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to wage war in His behalf, TO SAVE HIM FROM THOSE THAT CONDEMN HIS SOUL. Thus God, the righteous Judge, would eventually pronounce the sentence of jus...
FROM THOSE THAT CONDEMN HIS SOUL: _ Heb._ from the judges of his soul...
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...
AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE POOR, to defend him from his adversary, who stood in that place to accuse him, and to procure his condemnation and destruction. SEE POOLE ON "PSALMS 109:6". THAT CONDEMN HIS S...
Psalms 109:31 stand H5975 (H8799) hand H3225 poor H34 save H3467 (H8687) condemn H8199 (H8802) him...
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...
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...
_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...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 109:30 The psalm closes with hope. The singer is confident that soon he will GIVE GREAT THANKS TO THE LORD in public worship....
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...
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...
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...
Acts 4:10; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Exodus 22:22; Isaiah 54:17; Prover