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Verse Psalms 109:11. _LET THE STRANGERS SPOIL HIS LABOUR._] Many of
these execrations were literally fulfilled in the case of the
miserable Jews, after the death of our Lord. They were not only
expell...
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LET THE EXTORTIONER CATCH ALL THAT HE HATH - literally, “Let the
extortioner cast a snare over all that he hath;” that is, let him
seize all his property. The word rendered “catch” - נקשׁ
_nâqash_ -...
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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 (Psalms 109:21)
The five Psalms...
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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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CATCH. lay. snare for. Compare 1 Samuel 28:9....
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LET THE EXTORTIONER CATCH— Or, _Let the usurer extort._...
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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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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers
spoil his labour.
-God's visitation on the wicked man's property (Psalms 109:11); on his
name and memorial (Psalms 109:13). The ins...
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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, EVE...
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LET THE EXTORTIONER. — Better, _let the usurer lay traps to catch
all that he hath._ So Timon:
“Let prisons swallow them,
Debts wither them to nothing.”...
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יְנַקֵּ֣שׁ נֹ֭ושֶׁה לְ כָל ־אֲשֶׁר
־לֹ֑ו וְ יָבֹ֖זּוּ זָרִ֣ים יְגִיעֹֽו׃...
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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 occasion...
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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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Let (f) the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers
spoil his labour.
(f) He declares that the curse of God lies on the extortioners, who
thinking to enrich their children by their...
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All these awful predictions, let the Reader remember, are spoken of a
particular person, and that person, we have seen, is Judas. But that
the Judas's of every age and generation are equally implicate...
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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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LET THE EXTORTIONER CATCH ALL THAT HE HATH,.... Or, "lay a snare for
all" c; as the Romans did, by bringing in their army, invading the
land of Judea, and besieging the city of Jerusalem; who are "the...
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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers
spoil his labour.
Ver. 11. _Let the extortioner catch all that he hath_] As it were in
nets and snares, that is, in bonds, debts, mor...
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_Let the extortioner catch_, &c. Hebrew, ינקשׁ נשׁה,
_jenakkesh nosheh, the creditor_, or _usurer, shall insnare all that
he hath:_ that is, take it away, not only by oppression and violence,
but by c...
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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 ow...
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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, whil...
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EXTORTIONER; or, _usurer_, or _creditor_. _Catch_, Heb. _insnare_,
which is an emphatical expression, i.e. take away not only by
oppression and violence, but also by cheats and cunning artifices,
wher...
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Psalms 109:11 creditor H5383 (H8802) seize H5367 (H8762) strangers
H2114 (H8801) plunder H962 (H8799) labor H3018
extortioner - Job 5:5, Job 18:9-19, Job 20:18
strangers - Deuteronomy 28:29,...
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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). “T...
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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 109:1). He prays that his accuser...
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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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Job 18:9; Job 20:18; Job 5:5; Judges 6:3...
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Catch — Heb. ensnare, take away not only by oppression but also by
cunning artificers. Stranger — Who hath no right to his goods....