“ For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. ”
For I am poor and needy - I am helpless and dependent. I am in a condition where I need thy gracious interposition. And my heart is wounded within me - I am as one that is prostrated by a wea...
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...
poor. oppressed. Refers to Messiah. Compare Psalms 109:16 . See Psalms 40:17 ; Psalms 69:29 ; Psalms 70:5 ; Psalms 86:1 . heart. Compare Psalms 109:16 .
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. I am poor and needy - I am allicted and impoverished; and my heart is wounded - my very life is sinking through distress.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. For I am poor and needy - ( Psalms 40:17 .) And my heart is wounded within me - with grief ( Psalms 109:16 , end; Psalms 55:4...
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 109:1-31 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...
the Deliverer of the Needy Psalms 109:17-31 This psalm emphasizes the difference, indicated by our Lord, between His teaching and that addressed to “them of old time,” especially on the point o...
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...
Here we have the blessed Jesus, in his human nature addressing the Father, as in the days of his flesh. How very interesting to his people are those cries! How impossible but to take part in them! an...
For I am poor and needy ,.... As he was in human nature, being born of poor parents, brought up in a mean manner, had not where to lay his head, and was ministered to by others; though he was Lord o...
For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. Ver. 22. For I am poor and needy ] As a leper showeth his ulcers to move pity, so doth David his indigency and ailments. And my hea...
But do thou for me, O God Namely, what I desire, which he expresses in the next clause, saying, Deliver thou me Or, he means, Do thou act for me; be not silent or still, but stir up thyself to...
Humble Petitions; Triumphing in God. 21 But do thou for me, O G OD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy i...
I am poor and needy; and therefore a very proper object for thy pity and help. I am wounded not slightly, but to the very heart with soul-piercing sorrows.
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 109:6 . 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...
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...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 8:9 ; 2 Kings 4:27 ; Isaiah 53:3 ; Job 6:4 ; John 12:27 ; Luke 22:44 ; Matthew 8:20 ; Psalms 102:17-20 ; Psalms 22:6 ; Psalms 40:17 ; Psalms 86:1 ; Psalms 102:4 ; Psalms 10...