“ Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satanb stand at his right hand. ”
Set thou a wicked man over him - This commences the imprecatory part of the psalm, extending to Psalms 109:20 . The first thing that the psalmist asks is, that his foe might be subjected to the...
(c) Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. (c) Whether it was Doeg or Saul, or some familiar friend that had betrayed him, he prays not for private affection, but mov...
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...
Set Thou . "[saying] Set Thou", &c. See note above. Note the Parenthesis (App-6), verses: Psalms 109:6-15 . And let Satan . And then Satan will. Satan . an adversary.
6 Set thou over him a wicked person. (305) Hitherto he poured out his complaint against a vast number of persons; now he seems to direct it against a single individual. Probably he speaks o...
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. Let Satan stand at his right hand - As the word שטן satan means an adversary simply, though sometimes it is used to express the...
Set thou a wicked man over him— Set a wicked one over him, and let an adversary stand at his right hand. I choose to translate it, says Mudge, by the general word adversary, because it better s...
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. Set thou a wicked man over him - as his superior, armed with judicial authority to execute God's judgment on him. A just...
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...
Set thou a wicked man over him. — This rendering is abundantly confirmed by Leviticus 26:16 ; Numbers 4:27 ; Numbers 27:16 ; Jeremiah 15:3 ; Jeremiah 51:27 , against Hitzig’s proposed “Pronoun...
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...
We cannot be at a loss to discover to whom Christ here refers; when Jesus had dipped the sop at the table, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon; and after the sop, Satan entered into him. H...
Set thou a wicked man over him ,.... Or "them", as the Syriac version; over everyone of his adversaries, and all of them: and which may be interpreted, as it is by Cocceius, of tyrannical princes an...
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. Ver. 6. Set thou a wicked man over him ] Whose tender mercies may be cruelties; let the devil be his taskmaster. Thus he pr...
Set thou a wicked man over him Either over all his enemies, speaking of them collectively, or over some one particular enemy, who was worse than any of the rest, more implacable and inexcusable, wh...
Prophetic Imprecations. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be j...
A wicked man, Heb. the wicked ; which may be understood either, 1. Of some wicked tyrant, which may rule him with rigour and cruelty. Or, 2. Of Satan, who is mentioned in the next clause. Let...
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...
John 13:2 ; John 13:27 ; Matthew 27:4 ; Matthew 5:25 ; Zechariah 3:1
A wicked man — Who will rule him with rigour and cruelty. Satan — To accuse him; for this was the place and posture of accusers in the Jewish courts.