Psalm 109:23-30

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 109:21-31

David, having denounced God's wrath against his enemies, here takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner, and without boasting. I. He pours out his complaint before God concerning the low condition he was in, which, probably, gave advantage to his enemies to insult over him: ?I am poor and needy, and therefore a proper object of pity, and one that needs and craves thy help.? 1. He was troubled in mind (Ps. 109:22): My heart is wounded within me, not only broken with outward... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:23

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth ,.... When the sun is setting, and the shadow is going off; man's life is often compared to a shadow, because fleeting, momentary, and soon gone, 1 Chronicles 29:15 and death is expressed by going the way of all flesh; and by going to the grave, the house for all living, a man's long home, Joshua 23:14 and so is the death of Christ, Luke 22:22 , it may be rendered, "I am made to go" F8 נהלכתי "cogor abire", Junius & Tremellius,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting ,..... Either voluntary or forced, through want of food or refreshment; this was verified in Christ, when he kneeled and prayed, and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground; see Psalm 69:10 . And my flesh faileth of fatness ; or "for want of oil" F11 משמן δι' ελαιον , Sept. "propter oleum", V. L. "propter defectum olei", Eth. Arab. ; the radical moisture of his flesh being dried up like a potsherd, Psalm 22:15 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:25

I became also a reproach unto them ,.... Or they reproached him; not only in life, traducing his conversation, blaspheming his miracles, calling him a Samaritan, saying he had a devil, and charging him with sedition; but at the time of his death they reviled him, and treated him in the most opprobrious manner. When they looked upon me, they shaked their heads ; which was verified in the Jews as they passed by the cross of Christ, whither they came to stare upon him and scoff at him, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:26

Help me, O Lord my God ,.... Jehovah the Father is here addressed, who is the God of Christ, as Christ is man; who formed him, supported him, and glorified him; and whom Christ loved, believed in, obeyed and prayed unto; nor did he pray to a God that could not hear, but to one that was able to save him from death: as a divine Person he needed no help, being the mighty God, the most Mighty, the Almighty: but as man he did, being encompassed about with infirmities; and as Mediator help was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:27

That they may know that this is thy hand ,.... Which inflicted vengeance, and executed judgments on Judas and the Jews, as before imprecated: so the Targum, "that they may know that this is thy stroke;' or which was concerned in all the sorrows and sufferings of the Messiah, which could never have come upon him had it not been the will of God; it was his hand and council that determined it, or men could never have effected it; see Acts 4:28 , or which wrought deliverance and salvation... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:28

Let them curse, but bless thou ,.... Let them curse me, as Shimei did David, the type of Christ; let them curse themselves, as they did; or my people: or "let them be cursed", as the Syriac version; cursed in life and at death, and to all eternity: but "bless thou me ", the Messiah; as he did, when he raised him front the dead, set him at his right hand, and gave him a name above everyone, and made him most blessed for evermore; and bless my people with all spiritual blessings of grace,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:29

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame ,.... This is only explanative of what is said before, And let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle : the Arabic version is, "as with a breastplate." Some understand it as a petition of Christ, that they might be brought to repentance for their sins, and so to shame for them; which is an instance of his wondrous grace and goodness; and it is certain he prayed for the forgiveness of his enemies when on the cross, Luke... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:30

I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth ,.... Vocally, and in the highest strains. Yea, I will praise him among the multitude : of converted persons, both Jews and Gentiles, and by them: or, "among the mighty" F12 בתוך רבים "in magno coetu", Tigurine version. ; or great ones; the great congregation, as in Psalm 22:25 among the innumerable and mighty angels in heaven; or, as the Targum, "among the wise men;' his own disciples, made wise unto salvation, and to win... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 109:23

I am gone like the shadow - " I have walked like the declining shadow," - I have passed my meridian of health and life; and as the sun is going below the horizon, so am I about to go under the earth. I am tossed up and down as the locust - When swarms of locusts take wing, and infest the countries in the east, if the wind happen to blow briskly, the swarms are agitated and driven upon each other, so as to appear to be heaved to and fro, or tossed up and down. Dr. Shaw, who has seen this,... read more

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