Exodus 22:24; Jeremiah 18:21; Lamentations 5:3
Let his children be fatherless - Hebrew, “his sons.” This is what “always” occurs when a criminal who is a father is executed. It is one of the c...
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...
children . sons.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be fatherless, etc. - It is said that Judas was a married man, against whom th...
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be fatherless...
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...
Children... wife. — It is one of the sadly peculiar features of this series of curses that the resentment of the imprecator cannot satisfy itself o...
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 his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. This sometimes is the case of good men, who leave widows and fatherless children, whom the Lo...
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Ver. 9. Let his children be fatherless ] Helpless and shiftless. A sore vexation to many on...
Let his children be Hebrew, יהיו בניו jihju banaiv, his children shall be fatherless Namely, while they are but children, and so are unable to pr...
Prophetic Imprecations. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Sat...
Fatherless; whilst they are but children, and so unable to provide for themselves. A widow; either made a widow by his death; or constantly a wid...
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 his children be fatherless, orphaned by his violent death, and his wife a widow, his family sharing in the punishment of his guilt.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.