Psalms 109:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. ”

Psalms 109:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because that he remembered not to show mercy - He had no compassion; he was severe, harsh, unjust, unfeeling. But persecuted the poor and needy man - The man that was destitute of friends; th...
Psalms 109:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Because that (h) he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. (h) He shows that God plagues them in a strange way who show the...
Psalms 109:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 109:1-5 . The Psalmist's distress in persecu...
Psalms 109:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 109:16 is. return to the subject of verses: Psalms 109:1-5 , and by the same speaker of verses: Psalms 109:1-5 . the poor . an oppressed one ( Psalms 109:22 ). man. Hebrew. i . h ....
Psalms 109:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. Because he forgot to show mercy The prophet comes now to show that he had good reason for desiring such awful and direful calamities to be inflicted upon his enemies, whose thirst for cr...
Psalms 109:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. Persecuted the poor and needy man - In the case of Jesus Christ all t...
Psalms 109:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

That he might even slay the broken in heart— And broken in heart, to slay him.
Psalms 109:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 109:11-12 ); on his name and memorial ( Psalms 109:1...
Psalms 109:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 Epipha...
Psalms 109:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Poor. — The Hebrew word thus rendered, viz., ‘ anî, has suggested a reference to the murder of the high priest Onias (2Ma. 4:34-36).
Psalms 109:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 109:1-31 THIS is the last and the most terrible of the imprecatory psalms. Its central portion ( Psalms 109:6-20 ) consists of a series of wishes, addressed to God, for the heaping of all m...
Psalms 109:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 109:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 s...
Psalms 109:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How beautiful, by way of further illustration, doth this verse here come in! Judas's crime, and that of the whole Jewish nation with him, was the rejection of Christ, the truly poor and needy man, wh...
Psalms 109:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Because that he remembered not to show mercy ,.... As Judas did not; neither to the poor, whom he cared not for, John 12:6 nor to Christ, whom he betrayed with a kiss to his enemies: nor had these...
Psalms 109:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. Ver. 16. Because that he remembered not to show mercy ] Here the p...
Psalms 109:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Because he remembered not “The crime which brought upon its perpetrators all the above-mentioned judgments and calamities, is here pointed out too plainly to be mistaken. They remembered not to sh...
Psalms 109:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prophetic Imprecations. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be j...
Psalms 109:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Remembered not his duty to God, and his obligation to me my former kindness, expressed Psalms 109:4,5 . The poor and needy man; myself, who was desolate and miserable, whose required pity, and...
Psalms 109:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Psalms 109:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 D...
Psalms 109:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hold not Thy peace, O God of my praise. A song of imprecation I. The misdeeds of the wicked ( Psalms 109:1-5 ). II. The imprecation of wrath (verses 6-20). III. The cry for mercy ( Psalms...
Psalms 109:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 especia...
Psalms 109:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Psalms 109:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 16:11 ; 2 Samuel 16:12 ; 2 Samuel 17:1 ; 2 Samuel 17:2 ; Genesis 42:21 ; James 2:13 ; Job 19:2 ; Job 19:21 ; Job 19:22 ; Job 19:3 ; Mark 14:34-36 ; Matthew 18:33-35 ; Matthew 27...

Psalms 109:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 109:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 109:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 109:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 109:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 109:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 109:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 109:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 109:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 109:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 109:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 109:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 109:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 109:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 109:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge