Psalms 109:18

1 Peter 5:5; Acts 1:18; Acts 1:25; Colossians 3:12; Colossians 3:8; Job 20:12-16; Job 20:20-23; Job 29:14; Matthew 26:24; Matthew 27:3-5; Numbers 5:22; Numbers 5:27; Psalms 73:6

Related Commentaries of Psalms 109:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with a garment - Moral qualities are often compared with raiment - as that in which we “appear” to our...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Not a few interpreters translate the next two verses in the past form, he clothed himself with cursing, etc., which would be tantamount to s...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. Let it come into...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Like oil into his bones— These expressions admirably mark out an adhering rooted curse, which penetrated the body, as the water which one drinks, a...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Let. — The optatives in the English are wrong. These verses express facts, and the imprecation follows in Psalms 109:19 . Render — He loved curs...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Deliverer of the Needy Psalms 109:17-31 This psalm emphasizes the difference, indicated by our Lord, between His teaching and that addresse...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The continuation of the awful consequences of the rejection of Christ, by Judas and his family, is here set forth; and the passage closeth with an as...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment ,.... He was full of it; his mouth was full of cursing and bitterness; it was visible in...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. Ver. 18. As h...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

As he loved cursing To curse others, as appears from the blessing here opposed to it, and from the next verse; to wish and to procure mischief to o...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prophetic Imprecations. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Sat...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A garment; which a man wears constantly, and that as Like water; which when a man drinks, goes bowels, and searcheth all the inwards of his belly...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This,” says Perowne, “is the last of the Psalms of imprecation, and completes the terrible climax. In the awfulness of its anathemas,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

As he clothed himself with cursing, as one wrapping himself closely in it, happy in feeling it all about himself, like as with his garment, so let i...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Garment — Which a man wears constantly. Like water — Water in the cavity of the belly, between the bowels, is almost certain death. And oil soaking...

¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowelse like water, and like oil into his bones.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 109:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 109:18