“ And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. ”
And they have rewarded me evil for good - literally, “They have placed against me.” They have put it in my way; it is what they had to set before me. See the notes at Psalms 35:12 , where the sa...
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...
rewarded me . set or put against me. Syriac reads "returned me". Not the same word as in Psalms 109:20 , though the same thing is referred to. evil. Hebrew. ra . a' . App-44. for my love. N...
5 But I gave myself to prayer (297) Some are of opinion, that these words refer to David’s pouring out a prayer for his enemies at the very moment when they were furiously assaulting him, a...
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love - ( Psalms 35:7 ; Psalms 35:12 ; Psalms 38:20 .)
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 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...
And they have rewarded me evil for good ,.... For the good words and sound doctrine he delivered to them; for the good works and miracles he wrought among them, to the healing of them; see John 10:...
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Ver. 5. And they have rewarded me ] See Psalms 109:4 . Flectere naturam gratia nulla potest.
Appeal to God Against Enemies. To the chief Musician. A psalm of David. 1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; ...
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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 Samuel 15:12 ; 2 Samuel 15:31 ; Genesis 44:4 ; John 13:18 ; Luke 22:47 ; Luke 22:48 ; Luke 6:16 ; Mark 14:44 ; Mark 14:45 ; Proverbs 17:13 ; Psalms 35:7-12 ; Psalms 55:12-15