Job 18:9-19; Job 20:18; Job 5:5; Judges 6:3-6
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath - literally, “Let the extortioner cast a snare over all that he hath;” that is, let him seize all his...
Let (f) the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. (f) He declares that the curse of God lies on the extortione...
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: P...
catch . lay. snare for. Compare 1 Samuel 28:9 .
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Let the strangers spoil his labor - Many of these execrations wer...
Let the extortioner catch— Or, Let the usurer extort.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. -God's visitation on the wicked man's property ( Psalms 10...
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...
Spoil ] better, 'make spoil of.'
Let the extortioner. — Better, let the usurer lay traps to catch all that he hath. So Timon: “Let prisons swallow them, Debts wither them to not...
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...
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, remem...
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...
All these awful predictions, let the Reader remember, are spoken of a particular person, and that person, we have seen, is Judas. But that the Judas'...
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath ,.... Or, "lay a snare for all" c; as the Romans did, by bringing in their army, invading the land of Jud...
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Ver. 11. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath ] As it we...
Let the extortioner catch , &c. Hebrew, ינקשׁ נשׁה, jenakkesh nosheh, the creditor , or usurer, shall insnare all that he hath: that is, take...
Prophetic Imprecations. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Sat...
Extortioner; or, usurer , or creditor . Catch , Heb. insnare , which is an emphatical expression, i.e. take away not only by oppression and vio...
INTRODUCTION “This,” says Perowne, “is the last of the Psalms of imprecation, and completes the terrible climax. In the awfulness of its anathemas,...
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 adver...
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...
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...
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...
Let the extortioner, the heartless creditor, catch all that he hath, as in a net or snare; and let the strangers spoil his labor, making that the...
Catch — Heb. ensnare, take away not only by oppression but also by cunning artificers. Stranger — Who hath no right to his goods.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.