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Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 109:1-31

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 time, in his relation to Doeg, to Ahithophel, or to Shimei, but which at the same time is prophetical and typical of the relation in which Christ stood to the Jews and especially to Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him. This is evident from the remarks of Peter at the election of Matthias, Acts... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 109:1-31

Psalms 109:0To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David          Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;2     For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me;They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.3     They compassed me about also with words of hatred;And fought against me without a cause.4     For my love they are my adversaries:But I give myself unto prayer.5     And they have rewarded me evil for good,And hatred for my love.6     Set thou a wicked man... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 109:1-16

the Persecutor of the Needy Psalms 109:1-16 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, spared the life of his persecutor, and who, when the field of Gilboa was wet with Saul’s life-blood, sang the loveliest of elegiacs to his memory. These maledictions do not express personal vindictiveness. Probably they should be read as depicting the doom of the wrong-doer. The Apostle,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 109:1-31

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 singer’s quotation of what his enemies say about him, rather than what he says about them. In a translation published by the Jewish Publication Society of America, that fact is clearly shown. They render verses Psa 109:5 and Psa 109:20 thus: “They repay me evil for good, And hatred for my love... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 109:8

RESPONSIBILITY OF OFFICE‘Let another take his office.’Psalms 109:8It is not too much to say that, save in the Athanasian Creed itself, nowhere have Christian people found more widespread spiritual difficulty than in what are commonly known as the Imprecatory Psalms, and even among these none is equal to the psalm whence the text is taken. How are we to understand them; how, especially when we are told to forgive as we would be forgiven, can we, in Christian churches, take them on our lips?... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 109:1-31

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-Deuteronomy :. The Psalmist’ s distress in persecution; Psalms 109:6-Proverbs :. Bitter curses against his foes; in Psalms 109:21-Obadiah : he recurs to his suffering but is confident of final deliverance. Note that in Psalms 109:6-Proverbs : he does not merely assert that God will punish. Had he done so, he would have felt his pain of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 109:1

Hold not thy peace; do not neglect me, but take notice of my extreme danger and misery, and deliver me, which thou canst do by the speaking of one word. O God of my praise; the author and matter of all my praises; who hast given me continual occasion to praise thee, whom I have used to praise, and will praise whilst I live; do not therefore now give me occasion to turn my praises into lamentations. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 109:2

Of the deceitful; of those who add hypocrisy and perfidiousness to their malice. Are opened; they speak freely, boldly, and publicly, without any fear or shame. Against me; or, to or with me, as this particle commonly signifies. With a lying tongue; either, 1. With calumnies, or false and malicious reports. Or, 2. With deep dissimulation and professions of friendship and kindness. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 109:3

Words of hatred; which, though covered with specious pretences, proceeded from deep malice and hatred, and were designed to work my destruction. Without a cause; without any just provocation given them by me. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 109:4

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 of prayer, or I betake myself to prayer. Thus I peace is put for I am for peace, as we render it, Psalms 120:7; and thy bread for the men of thy bread, or that eat thy bread, Obadiah 1:7. The sense is, Whilst they reproach and curse me, I pray either, 1. For them, as he did, Psalms 35:13; or, 2. For... read more

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