“ Let his days be few; and let another take his office.d ”
Let his days be few - Let him be soon cut off; let his life be shortened. It cannot be wrong for an officer of justice to aim at this; to desire it; to pray for it. How strange it would be for a...
Let his days be few; [and] let another take his (e) office. (e) This was chiefly accomplished in Judas, ( Acts 1:20 ).
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...
let another, &c. Quoted, but not fulfilled in Acts 1:20 . office . overseership.
8 Let his days be few Although this world is the scene of much toil and trouble, yet we know that these are pledges and proofs of God’s loving-kindness, inasmuch as he frequently, and as a t...
Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let another take his office - The original is פקדתו pekuddatho, which the margin translates charge, and which literally means superintendence,...
Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his days be few - even as he plotted to shorten my days; literally, 'be fewnesses.' The wish accords with the divinely-appointed fact...
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...
Office. — See Note, Psalms 109:6 . Evidently some post of power and influence.
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...
As the authority we have for applying all that is here said in a way of denunciation, to the person of Judas, is derived particularly from the apostle Peter's quoting this passage in direct reference...
RESPONSIBILITY OF OFFICE ‘Let another take his office.’ Psalms 109:8 It is not too much to say that, save in the Athanasian Creed itself, nowhere have Christian people found more widespread sp...
Let his days be few ,.... The days of men in common are but few at most: length of days, either beyond or according to the usual term of life, is reckoned a blessing; and to be cut off in the midst...
Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office. Ver. 8. Let his days be few ] Let his execution be hastened, as Haman's was. Ahithophel and Judas were their own deathsmen. Doeg, doubtless,...
Let his days be few The days of his life. Let him die an untimely death. So did Ahithophel, and so did Judas; both hanging themselves. And let another take his office Made void by his death. This...
Prophetic Imprecations. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be j...
Let his days be few; the days of his life. Let him die an untimely death. His office, made void by his death. He also implies that his enemy was a man of power and reputation.
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 109:8 As often as we keep St. Matthias' Day, we keep the memorial of the sin and misery of the traitor Judas also; and our thoughts are carried back to that severe and awful Psalm, the hund...
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...
Acts 1:16-26 ; Matthew 27:5 ; Psalms 55:23