Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 109:4
For my love they are my adversaries: (b) but I [give myself unto] prayer.
(b) To declare that I had no other refuge, but you, in whom my conscience was at rest.
For my love they are my adversaries: (b) but I [give myself unto] prayer.
(b) To declare that I had no other refuge, but you, in whom my conscience was at rest.
Verse Psalms 109:4. _FOR MY LOVE THEY ARE MY ADVERSARIES_] In their behalf I have performed many acts of kindness, and they are my adversaries notwithstanding; this shows principles the most vicious,...
FOR MY LOVE ... - As a recompence for my love; or, this is the return which I get for all the expressions of my love to them. The enemies referred to were those whom he had treated kindly; to whom he...
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...
I GIVE MYSELF UNTO PRAYER. I [am all] prayer. Compare Psalms 120:7 "I [am all] peace". As here in verses: Psalms 109:1 and verses: Psalms 109:21....
FOR MY LOVE, &C.— _While I pray for them, they in return for my love falsely accuse me._ Green....
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 my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. FOR MY LOVE THEY ARE MY ADVERSARIES, BUT I (GIVE MYSELF UNTO) PRAYER - `but I (am wholly engrossed in) prayer.' This is my sole r...
109:4 adversaries; (e-7) 'Satan,' as 1 Chronicles 21:1 , without the article. The same word, as verb or participle, is in vers. 4,20,29, and Psalms 38:20 ; Psalms 71:13 ....
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...
FOR MY LOVE... — _i.e., in return for my love_ I _give myself unto prayer._ For a concise expression of the same kind as “I prayer,” see Psalms 120:7, “I peace.” Of course the psalmist means, that in...
תַּֽחַת ־אַהֲבָתִ֥י יִשְׂטְנ֗וּנִי וַ אֲנִ֥י תְפִלָּֽה׃...
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 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...
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...
Repent. Not that He can ever do so, or give way to error: but the sacred writer expresses himself thus, to give us the greatest security. (Calmet) --- The order. Hebrew dibrathi, "my order," Melchised...
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...
4_On account of my love they have been opposed to me _(296) The Psalmist had already solemnly declared, that his adversaries, unprovoked by any injury inflicted upon them by him, and without any just...
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 MY LOVE THEY ARE MY ADVERSARIES,.... For the love that Christ showed to the Jews; to their bodies, in going about and healing all manner of diseases among them; to their souls, in preaching, the G...
For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto] prayer. Ver. 4. _For my love they are mine adversaries_] Heb. they satanically hate me. To render evil for evil is brutish, but to render...
_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...
For my love, that is, in return for all the love which he has shown them, THEY ARE MY ADVERSARIES; BUT I GIVE MYSELF UNTO PRAYER, literally, "I am prayer," that is, he gives forth his whole being in p...
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...
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...
FOR MY LOVE THEY ARE MY ADVERSARIES; they requite my love and good will with enmity and mischief, as it is explained, PSALMS 109:5. BUT I GIVE MYSELF UNTO PRAYER, Heb. _but I prayer_, i.e. I am a man...
Psalms 109:4 love H160 accusers H7853 (H8799) prayer H8605 For my - Psalms 35:7, Psa
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...
_But I give myself unto prayer._ THE UNIVERSAL SUITABILITY OF PRAYER This is the great resource of God’s children. Observe the disjunctive particle “but” with which the text begins. Let others do thi...
_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
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...
2 Corinthians 12:15; 2 Samuel 13:39; 2 Samuel 15:31; 2 Samuel 15:32;...
Adversaries — They requite my love with enmity, as it is explained Psalms 109:5....