Psalm 109:24 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting - Hunger; want of food. Strength to stand is connected with firmness in the knee-joints, and hence, weakness and feebleness are denoted by the giving way of the knees. Compare Hebrews 12:12.And my flesh faileth of fatness - I am lean and weak. There is not the proper supply for my strength. The idea seems to have been that fatness (Hebrew, oil) was necessary to strength. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 109:24-25

Psalms 109:24-25 . My knees are weak through fasting Either through forced fasting for want of food, when he was persecuted, or for want of appetite when he was sick, or through voluntary fasting, which the frequency and long continuance of his sufferings induced him to use. I became also a reproach unto them Instead of that pity, which either religion or humanity should have taught them to exercise toward a person in extreme misery, they loaded me with reproaches and scorns. They shaked... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:1-31

Psalms 109:0 Those who afflict othersDavid complains to God about the unjust attacks of his opponents and the false accusations they bring against him (1-3). He has no desire for personal revenge; rather he has shown love for his enemies and has prayed for them (4-5).Nevertheless, in the prayer that follows, David uses strong language as he pleads for justice to be done. With the cruelty of his enemies increasing, he hands the case over to God, the righteous judge, who will repay the wicked for... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 109:24

24, 25. Taunts and reproaches aggravate his afflicted and feeble state (Psalms 22:6; Psalms 22:7). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 109:1-31

Psalms 109This individual lament is one of the imprecatory psalms in which the writer called on God to avenge his enemies (cf. Psalms 3:7; Psalms 5:10; Psalms 6:10; Psalms 7:14-16; Psalms 28:4-5; Psalms 31:17-18; Psalms 37:2; Psalms 37:9-10; Psalms 37:15; Psalms 37:20; Psalms 37:35-36; Psalms 40:14-15; Psalms 54:5; Psalms 55:9; Psalms 55:15; Psalms 55:23; Psalms 59:12-13; Psalms 63:9-11; Psalms 64:7-9; Psalms 71:13; Psalms 79:6; Psalms 79:12; Psalms 139:19-22; Psalms 140:9-10). [Note: See Day,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 109:21-25

David asked the Lord to deal with him in harmony with His loyal love: for the sake of God’s reputation, David’s need, and the sinfulness of the wicked. David had sought to follow the Lord faithfully, and God had promised to bless people who did that. However, David was not experiencing God’s blessing. This made other people question God’s justice and faithfulness. If God would again bless David and curse his enemy, this would show onlookers that God’s promises are trustworthy. In these verses,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 109:21-31

3. Request for help 109:21-31 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 109:1-31

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 Epiphanes. The theory that the Psalmist recounts the curses used against him by his enemies is untenable. Calvin notes the awful use of this Ps. by certain monks, who hired themselves out to recite it against private enemies.6. Satan] RV ’an adversary.’ The word has both meanings in Hebrew. Satan was the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 109:24

(24) Faileth of fatness.—Literally, has failed me from fat, i.e., has dwindled away. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 109:1-31

An Imprecatory Psalm Psalms 109:7 It is not too much to say that, save in the Athanasian Creed itself, nowhere have Christian people found more widespread spiritual difficulty than in what are commonly known as the Imprecatory Psalms, and even among these none is equal to the Psalm whence the text is taken. How are we to understand them; how, especially when we are told to forgive as we would be forgiven, can we, in Christian churches, take them on our lips? The explanations are various.... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 109:24

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 109:24-25

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:1-31

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 109:24

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 109:1-31

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 109:21-25

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 109:21-31

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 109:1-31

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 109:24

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 109:1-31

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