“ That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it. ”
That they may know that this is thy hand - That this has been done by thee; that it has all occurred under thy direction, or has been ordered by thee. The reference seems to be particularly to Go...
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...
this is Thy hand. See note on "from the LORD", Psalms 109:20 . Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what is done by the hand. Thou, LORD, hast done it. See note on Psalms...
That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it. That they may know that this is thy hand - Let thy help be so manifest in my behalf, that they may see it is thy hand, and...
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy: Help me, O Lord ... That they may know that this is thy hand - "that this" work of delivering me "is" the doing of 'thine hand' ( Psa...
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...
That they may know that this is thy hand ,.... Which inflicted vengeance, and executed judgments on Judas and the Jews, as before imprecated: so the Targum, "that they may know that this is thy str...
That they may know that this [is] thy hand; [that] thou, LORD, hast done it. Ver. 27. That they may know ] That I am delivered merely by thy presence and power. It is the ingenuity of the saints,...
Help me, O Lord my God But my hope is, that thou, my God, wilt seasonably interpose for my relief, and save me Out of my troubles; according to thy mercy That tender mercy which is wont to exte...
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...
Know; being convinced of the eminency, and singularity, and strangeness of the work.
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...
1 Kings 18:36 ; 1 Kings 18:37 ; 1 Samuel 17:46 ; 1 Samuel 17:47 ; Acts 2:32-36 ; Acts 4:16 ; Exodus 8:19 ; Job 37:7 ; Numbers 16:28-30 ; Psalms 126:2 ; Psalms 17:13 ; Psalms 17:14 ; Psal...