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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,...
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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...
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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 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....
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FOR MY LOVE, &C.— _While I pray for them, they in return for my love
falsely accuse me._ Green....
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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 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...
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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 ....
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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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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...
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תַּֽחַת ־אַהֲבָתִ֥י יִשְׂטְנ֗וּנִי
וַ אֲנִ֥י תְפִלָּֽה׃...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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 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...
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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...
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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 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...
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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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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...
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Psalms 109:4 love H160 accusers H7853 (H8799) prayer H8605
For my - Psalms 35:7, Psa
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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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_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...
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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 Corinthians 12:15; 2 Samuel 13:39; 2 Samuel 15:31; 2 Samuel 15:32;...
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Adversaries — They requite my love with enmity, as it is explained
Psalms 109:5....