Psalms 109:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. ”

Psalms 109:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth - See the notes at Psalms 102:11 . I am tossed up and down as the locust - Agitated, moved, driven about, as a cloud of locusts is by the wind. Th...
Psalms 109:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the (m) locust. (m) Meaning that he has no stay or assurance in this world.
Psalms 109:23 - 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 109:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

23 I walk about as a shadow. These are two very appropriate similitudes: to the first of them I formerly adverted in Psalms 102:12 ; namely, that the afflicted person, and he who is almost...
Psalms 109:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. I am gone like the shadow - "I have walked like the declining shadow," - I have passed my meridian of health and li...
Psalms 109:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I am tossed up and down as the locust— I am driven away, or shaken off like the locust. Green and Mudge. Dr. Shaw, speaking of the large and numerous swarms of locusts in Barbary, says, "When t...
Psalms 109:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. I am gone like the shadow when it declineth - ( Psalms 102:11 , note.) I am tossed up and down as the lo...
Psalms 109:23 - 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 109:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Shadow when it declineth. — Literally, a lengthened shade. (Comp. Psalms 102:11 , and see Note. Song of Solomon 2:17 .) When the day declines the shadow lengthens, it becomes longer and longer,...
Psalms 109:23 - 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 109:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 109:23 - 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 109:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Psalms 109:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth ,.... When the sun is setting, and the shadow is going off; man's life is often compared to a shadow, because fleeting, momentary, and soon gone, 1 Chro...
Psalms 109:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. Ver. 23. I am gone like the shadow ] Abii, perii, evanui, I vanish, as the long shadows do so soon as the su...
Psalms 109:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I am gone , &c. Hebrew, נהלכתי, neehlacheti, I am made to go , either, 1st, From place to place; which was David's case when he was persecuted by Saul and by Absalom, and Christ's case upon ear...
Psalms 109:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Psalms 109:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I am gone, Heb. I am made to go ; either, 1. From place to place; which was David's case, when he was persecuted by Saul and by Absalom; and Christ's case upon earth, where he had no certain pla...
Psalms 109:23 - 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 109:23 - 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 109:23 - 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 109:23 - 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 109:23 - 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 109:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 29:15 ; Ecclesiastes 6:12 ; Ecclesiastes 8:13 ; Exodus 10:13 ; Exodus 10:19 ; James 4:14 ; Job 14:2 ; Psalms 102:10 ; Psalms 102:11 ; Psalms 144:4
Psalms 109:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

When — Towards the evening, when the sun is setting. The locust — Which is easily driven away with every wind.

Psalms 109:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 109:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 109:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 109:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 109:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 109:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 109:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 109:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 109:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 109:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 109:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 109:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 109:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 109:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 109:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes