Psalm 109:1-15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 109:1-5

It is the unspeakable comfort of all good people that, whoever is against them, God is for them, and to him they may apply as to one that is pleased to concern himself for them. Thus David here. I. He refers himself to God's judgment (Ps. 109:1): ?Hold not thy peace, but let my sentence come forth from thy presence, Ps. 17:2. Delay not to give judgment upon the appeal made to thee.? God saw what his enemies did against him, but seemed to connive at it, and to keep silence: ?Lord,? says he, ?do... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 109:6-20

David here fastens upon some one particular person that was worse than the rest of his enemies, and the ringleader of them, and in a devout and pious manner, not from a principle of malice and revenge, but in a holy zeal for God and against sin and with an eye to the enemies of Christ, particularly Judas who betrayed him, whose sin was greater than Pilate's that condemned him (John 19:11), he imprecates and predicts his destruction, foresees and pronounces him completely miserable, and such a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:1

Hold not thy peace ,.... Or be not as a deaf or dumb man, or like one that turns a deaf ear and will give no answer; so the Lord seems to his people when he does not give an immediate answer to their prayers, and does not arise to help them; he seems to have forsaken them, and to stand at a distance from them; nor does he avenge them of their enemies; it is the Messiah, as man, that puts up this petition, and it agrees with Psalm 22:2 . O God of my praise ; worthy of all praise,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me ,.... Or "of deceit" F24 פי מרמה "os doli", Vatablus, Cocceius; "os fraudis", Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth. itself; most wicked and very deceitful men, who sometimes flattered and pretended friendship, as the Jews did to Christ, when they designed ill against him; though at other times their mouths were opened, and they poured out their calumnies and reproaches very freely and largely; traducing... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:3

They compassed me about also with words of hatred ,.... They surrounded him as he hung on the cross, and expressed their malice and hatred against him; then was he enclosed with these spiteful snarling dogs, and encompassed by them as with so many bees, who everyone left their sting in him, Psalm 22:16 . And fought against me without a cause : they were of an hostile spirit, enemies and enmity itself against him; fought against him both with words and blows, with their tongues and with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:4

For my love they are my adversaries ,.... For the love that Christ showed to the Jews; to their bodies, in going about and healing all manner of diseases among them; to their souls, in preaching, the Gospel to them in each of their cities; and for the love he showed to mankind in coming into the world to save them, which should have commanded love again; but instead of this they became his implacable adversaries: they acted the part of Satan; they were as so many Satans to him, as the word... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:5

And they have rewarded me evil for good ,.... For the good words and sound doctrine he delivered to them; for the good works and miracles he wrought among them, to the healing of them; see John 10:32 . And hatred for my love ; he came to seek and save that which was lost, and yet they hated him, and would not have him to rule over them, Luke 19:10 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:6

Set thou a wicked man over him ,.... Or "them", as the Syriac version; over everyone of his adversaries, and all of them: and which may be interpreted, as it is by Cocceius, of tyrannical princes and governors, set over the Jews, as Tiberius, Caius, Claudius, Nero, &c.; and their deputies, Pilate, Felix, Festus, Florus; all wicked men, and which were a judgment on them for their usage of Christ. Though here some single person is designed, even Judas, notorious for his enmity and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:7

When he shall be judged, let him be condemned ,.... When he shall be arraigned at the bar of his own conscience, and be charged with the sin of which he is guilty, let conscience, which is as a thousand witnesses, rise up against him, and condemn him; so it did Judas, Matthew 26:1 , or when he shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ at the last day, let him go out a wicked , or a guilty or condemned man F26 יצא רשע "exeat impius", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, De Dieu,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 109:8

Let his days be few ,.... The days of men in common are but few at most: length of days, either beyond or according to the usual term of life, is reckoned a blessing; and to be cut off in the midst of a man's days a curse; when this is by the immediate hand of God, as a visible token of his displeasure; or by the hand of the civil magistrate, for some capital offence; or by a man's own hands, which was the case of Judas; whose days were but few, in comparison of the other apostles, who... read more

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