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<p id="Chapter109" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 109
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<p id="Ps109_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',109,'1-31');">Psa 109:1-31</a>.
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<p>The writer complains of his virulent enemies, on whom he imprecates God's righteous punishment, and to a prayer for a divine interposition in his behalf appends the expression of his confidence and a promise of his praises. This Psalm is remarkable for the number and severity of its imprecations. Its evident typical character (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',109,8);">Psa 109:8</a>) justifies the explanation of these already given, that as the language of David respecting his own enemies, or those of Christ, it has respect not to the penitent, but to the impenitent and implacable foes of good men, and of God and His cause, whose inevitable fate is thus indicated by inspired authority.
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<p><b>1. God of my praise</b>—its object, thus recognizing God as a certain helper. <i>Be not silent</i> (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',17,13);">Psa 17:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',28,1);">28:1</a>).
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<p id="Ps109_2"><b>2. For the mouth...opened</b>—or, "They have opened a wicked mouth"
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<br><br><b>against me</b>—literally, "with me," that is, Their intercourse is living, or, they slander me to my face (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',26,59);">Mat 26:59</a>).
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<p id="Ps109_3"><b>3.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',35,7);">Psa 35:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',69,4);">69:4</a>).
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<p id="Ps109_4"><b>4, 5.</b> They return evil for good (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',27,12);">Psa 27:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',17,13);">Pro 17:13</a>).
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<br><br><b>I give myself unto prayer</b>—or literally, "I (am) prayer," or, "as for me, prayer," that is, it is my resource for comfort in distress.
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<p id="Ps109_6"><b>6. over him</b>—one of his enemies prominent in malignity (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',55,12);">Psa 55:12</a>).
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<br><br><b>let Satan stand</b>—as an accuser, whose place was the right hand of the accused (<a onclick="return mV('Zec',3,1,2);">Zec 3:1-2</a>).
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<p id="Ps109_7"><b>7.</b> The condemnation is aggravated when prayer for relief is treated as a sin.
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<p id="Ps109_8"><b>8.</b> The opposite blessing is long life (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',91,16);">Psa 91:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',3,2);">Pro 3:2</a>). The last clause is quoted as to Judas by Peter (<a onclick="return mV('Act',1,20);">Act 1:20</a>).
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<br><br><b>office</b>—literally, "charge," <i>Septuagint,</i> and Peter, "oversight" [<a onclick="return mV('1Pe',5,2);">1Pe 5:2</a>].
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<p id="Ps109_9"><b>9, 10.</b> Let his family share the punishment, his children be as wandering beggars to prowl in their desolate homes, a greedy and relentless creditor grasp his substance, his labor, or the fruit of it, enure to strangers and not his heirs, and his unprotected, fatherless children fall in want, so that his posterity shall utterly fail.
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<p id="Ps109_13"><b>13. posterity</b>—literally, "end," as in <a onclick="return mV('Psa',37,38);">Psa 37:38</a>, or, what comes after; that is, reward, or success, or its expectation, of which posterity was to a Jew a prominent part.
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<p id="Ps109_14"><b>14, 15. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered,</b> etc.—Added to the terrible overthrow following his own sin, let there be the imputation of his parents' guilt, that it may now come before God, for His meting out its full consequences, in cutting off the memory of them (that is, the parents) from the earth (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',34,16);">Psa 34:16</a>).
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<p id="Ps109_16"><b>16.</b> Let God remember guilt, because he (the wicked) did not remember mercy.
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<br><br><b>poor and needy...broken in heart</b>—that is, pious sufferer (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',34,18);">Psa 34:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',35,10);">35:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',40,17);">40:17</a>).
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<p id="Ps109_17"><b>17-19.</b> Let his loved sin, cursing, come upon him in punishment (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',35,8);">Psa 35:8</a>), thoroughly fill him as water and oil, permeating to every part of his system (compare <a onclick="return mV('Num',5,'22-27');">Num 5:22-27</a>), and become a garment and a girdle for a perpetual dress.
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<p id="Ps109_20"><b>20. Let this...reward</b>—or, "wages," pay for labor, the fruit of the enemy's wickedness.
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<br><br><b>from the Lord</b>—as His judicial act.
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<p id="Ps109_21"><b>21, 22. do...for me</b>—that is, kindness.
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<br><br><b>wounded</b>—literally, "pierced" (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',69,16, 29);">Psa 69:16, 29</a>).
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<p id="Ps109_23"><b>23. like the shadow</b>—(Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',102,11);">Psa 102:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>tossed up and down</b>—or, "driven" (<a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Exd',10,19);">Exd 10:19</a>).
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<p id="Ps109_24"><b>24, 25.</b> Taunts and reproaches aggravate his afflicted and feeble state (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',22,6,7);">Psa 22:6-7</a>).
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<p id="Ps109_26"><b>26, 27.</b> Let my deliverance glorify Thee (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',59,13);">Psa 59:13</a>).
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<p id="Ps109_28"><b>28-31.</b> In confidence that God's blessing would come on him, and confusion and shame on his enemies (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',73,13);">Psa 73:13</a>), he ceases to regard their curses, and anticipates a season of joyful and public thanksgiving; for God is near to protect (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',16,8);">Psa 16:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',34,6);">34:6</a>) the poor from all unrighteous judges who may condemn him.
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