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Verse Psalms 109:18. _LET IT COME INTO HIS BOWELS LIKE WATER_]
Houbigant thinks this is an allusion to the _waters of jealousy_; and
he is probably right, - the bitter waters that produce the curse. S...
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AS HE CLOTHED HIMSELF WITH CURSING LIKE AS WITH A GARMENT - Moral
qualities are often compared with raiment - as that in which we
“appear” to our fellow-men. See 1 Peter 5:5; Job 29:14.
SO LET IT COM...
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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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LIKE OIL INTO HIS BONES— These expressions admirably mark out an
adhering rooted curse, which penetrated the body, as the water which
one drinks, and as the oil with which one is rubbed: They have
swa...
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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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109:18 clothed (i-3) Or 'And let him clothe.'...
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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 optatives in the English are wrong. These verses express
facts, and the imprecation follows in Psalms 109:19. Render —
He loved cursing; and it comes;
He delighted not in blessing; and it...
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וַ יִּלְבַּ֥שׁ קְלָלָ֗ה כְּ מַ֫דֹּ֥ו
וַ תָּבֹ֣א כַ † מַּ֣יִם בְּ קִרְבֹּ֑ו
וְ֝ כַ †...
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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 forgiv...
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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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The continuation of the awful consequences of the rejection of Christ,
by Judas and his family, is here set forth; and the passage closeth
with an assurance that it shall be so. And here I must again...
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Not a few interpreters translate the next two verses in the past form,
_he clothed himself with cursing, etc., _which would be tantamount to
saying that the enemy was as fond of cursing as of costly a...
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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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AS HE CLOTHED HIMSELF WITH CURSING LIKE AS WITH HIS GARMENT,.... He
was full of it; his mouth was full of cursing and bitterness; it was
visible in him, easy to be discerned; he took pride as well as...
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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it
come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Ver. 18. _As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his
garm...
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_As he loved cursing_ To curse others, as appears from the blessing
here opposed to it, and from the next verse; to wish and to procure
mischief to others; _so let it come unto him_ Hebrew, תבואהו,
_t...
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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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INTO HIS BOWELS:
_ Heb._ within him...
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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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A GARMENT; which a man wears constantly, and that as LIKE WATER; which
when a man drinks, goes bowels, and searcheth all the inwards of his
belly. LIKE OIL; which is more piercing than water, and bein...
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Psalms 109:18 clothed H3847 (H8799) cursing H7045 garment H4055 enter
H935 (H8799) body H7130 water H4325 oil H8081 bones H6106
As he - Psalms 73:6; Job 29:14; Colossians 3:8, Colossian
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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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1 Peter 5:5; Acts 1:18; Acts 1:25; Colossians 3:12; Colossians 3:8;
Job 20:12; Job 20:20; Job 29:14; Matthew 26:24; Matthew 27:3;...
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Garment — Which a man wears constantly. Like water — Water in the
cavity of the belly, between the bowels, is almost certain death. And
oil soaking into any of the bones, will soon utterly destroy it....