“ For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. ”
For my love ... - As a recompence for my love; or, this is the return which I get for all the expressions of my love to them. The enemies referred to were those whom he had treated kindly; to who...
For my love they are my adversaries: (b) but I [give myself unto] prayer. (b) To declare that I had no other refuge, but you, in whom my conscience was at rest.
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...
I give myself unto prayer . I [am all] prayer. Compare Psalms 120:7 "I [am all] peace". As here in verses: Psalms 109:1-5 and verses: Psalms 109:21-27 .
4 On account of my love they have been opposed to me (296) The Psalmist had already solemnly declared, that his adversaries, unprovoked by any injury inflicted upon them by him, and without...
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. For my love they are my adversaries - In their behalf I have performed many acts of kindness, and they are my adversaries notwith...
For my love, &c.— While I pray for them, they in return for my love falsely accuse me. Green.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. For my love they are my adversaries, but I (give myself unto) prayer - `but I (am wholly engrossed in) prayer.' This is my...
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...
For my love... — i.e., in return for my love I give myself unto prayer. For a concise expression of the same kind as “I prayer,” see Psalms 120:7 , “I peace.” Of course the psalmist means, tha...
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 Persecutor of the Needy Psalms 109:1-16 This psalm is like a patch of the Sahara amid a smiling Eden. But, terrible as the words are, remember that they were written by the man who, on two...
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...
If, while we read these words, we call to our recollection Psalms 22:1 and Psalms 69:1 , we shall perceive an obvious correspondence. John the Evangelist tells us, that the Jews charged Christ wit...
For my love they are my adversaries ,.... For the love that Christ showed to the Jews; to their bodies, in going about and healing all manner of diseases among them; to their souls, in preaching, th...
For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto] prayer. Ver. 4. For my love they are mine adversaries ] Heb. they satanically hate me. To render evil for evil is brutish, but to rend...
The mouth of the wicked, and the mouth of the deceitful Of those who add hypocrisy and perfidiousness to their malice; are opened against me They speak against me freely, boldly, and publicly, wi...
Appeal to God Against Enemies. To the chief Musician. A psalm of David. 1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; ...
For my love they are my adversaries; they requite my love and good will with enmity and mischief, as it is explained, Psalms 109:5 . But I give myself unto prayer, Heb. but I prayer , i.e. I...
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 12:15 ; 2 Samuel 13:39 ; 2 Samuel 15:31 ; 2 Samuel 15:32 ; Daniel 6:10 ; John 10:32 ; Luke 23:34 ; Luke 6:11 ; Luke 6:12 ; Psalms 35:12 ; Psalms 35:7 ; Psalms 38:20 ; Psalm...
Adversaries — They requite my love with enmity, as it is explained Psalms 109:5 .