Psalms 109:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. ”

Psalms 109:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame - Let confusion and disappointment seem to cover them, so as to constitute a garment. See the notes at Psalms 109:18-19 . They had “clothed themselves...
Psalms 109:29 - 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 109:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Let mine, &c. Contrast this with the malignity of verses: Psalms 109:6-19 and characterized in verses: Psalms 109:16-19 .
Psalms 109:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. Let them cover themselves - He here retorts their own curse, Psalms 109:18 .
Psalms 109:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame - ( Psalms 71:13 ). And let...
Psalms 109:29 - 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 109:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(28-31) It is impossible not to notice the anti-climax in these verses, if they are spoken by the same person as Psalms 109:16-20 , and directed against the same enemies, of whom the one there singl...
Psalms 109:29 - 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 109:29 - 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 109:29 - 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 109:29 - 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 109:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame ,.... This is only explanative of what is said before, And let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle : the Arabic version is, "...
Psalms 109:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. Ver. 29. As with a mantle ] Sicut diploide, saith the Vulgate, as with a d...
Psalms 109:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 109:29 - 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 109:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For the disappointment of their wicked hopes and designs, and for that unexpected destruction which they have brought upon themselves.
Psalms 109:29 - 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 109:29 - 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 109:29 - 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 109:29 - 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 109:29 - 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 109:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 12:2 ; Jeremiah 20:11 ; Micah 7:10 ; Psalms 109:17-19 ; Psalms 132:18 ; Psalms 140:9 ; Psalms 35:26 ; Psalms 6:10

Psalms 109:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 109:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 109:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 109:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 109:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 109:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 109:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 109:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 109:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 109:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 109:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 109:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 109:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 109:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 109:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 109:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 109:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 109:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 109:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 109:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 109:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 109:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge