Psalms 109:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. ”

• Psalms 109:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I became also a reproach unto them - They reproached or reviled me as a bad man. Compare the notes at Psalms 22:6 . The plural here - “unto them” - shows that there were more than one to whom th...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. When they looked upon me they soaked their heads - Thus was David treated by Shimei, 2 Samuel 16:5 , 2 Samuel...

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• Psalms 109:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. I became also a reproach unto them - ( Psalms 22:6-7 ; Psalms 31:11 .) Hebrew, 'and I' emphatically: I,...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I became also a reproach unto them ,.... Or they reproached him; not only in life, traducing his conversation, blaspheming his miracles, calling him a Samaritan, saying he had a devil, and charging...

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• Psalms 109:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads. Ver. 25. I became also a reproach ] In respect to my leanness. They shaked their heads ] This is threaten...

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• Psalms 109:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  My knees are weak through fasting Either through forced fasting for want of food, when he was persecuted, or for want of appetite when he was sick, or through voluntary fasting, which the frequency...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Instead of that pity which either religion or humanity should have taught them to a man in extreme misery, they loaded me with reproaches and scorns. Shaked their heads; a gesture of contempt and d...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - 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...

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• Psalms 109:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Hebrews 12:2 ; Hebrews 13:13 ; Isaiah 37:22 ; Job 16:4 ; Matthew 27:39 ; Matthew 27:40 ; Psalms 22:6 ; Psalms 22:7 ; Psalms 31:11-13 ; Psalms 35:15 ; Psalms 35:16 ; Psalms 69:19 ; Psalms...

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