{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa109.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa109.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa109.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nGod of my praise--its object, thus recognizing God as a certain helper. Be not silent (compare Psa 17:13; Psa 28:1).\nFor the mouth . . . opened--or, \"They have opened a wicked mouth\"\nagainst me--literally, \"with me,\" that is, Their intercourse is lying, or, they slander me to my face (Mat 26:59).\n(Compare Psa 35:7; Psa 69:4).\nThey return evil for good (compare Psa 27:12; Pro 17:13).\nI give myself unto prayer--or literally, \"I (am) prayer,\" or, \"as for me, prayer,\" that is, it is my resource for comfort in distress.\nover him--one of his enemies prominent in malignity (Psa 55:12).\nlet Satan stand--as an accuser, whose place was the right hand of the accused (Zac 3:1-2).\nThe condemnation is aggravated when prayer for relief is treated as a sin.\nThe opposite blessing is long life (Psa 91:16; Pro 3:2). The last clause is quoted as to Judas by Peter (Act 1:20).\noffice--literally, \"charge,\" Septuagint, and Peter, \"oversight\" [Pe1 5:2].\nLet 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.\nposterity--literally, \"end,\" as in Psa 37:38, or, what comes after; that is, reward, or success, or its expectation, of which posterity was to a Jew a prominent part.\nLet the iniquity of his fathers be remembered, &c.--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 (Psa 34:16).\nLet God remember guilt, because he (the wicked) did not remember mercy.\npoor and needy . . . broken in heart--that is, pious sufferer (Psa 34:18; Psa 35:10; Psa 40:17).\nLet his loved sin, cursing, come upon him in punishment (Psa 35:8), thoroughly fill him as water and oil, permeating to every part of his system (compare Num 5:22-27), and become a garment and a girdle for a perpetual dress.\nLet this . . . reward--or, \"wages,\" pay for labor, the fruit of the enemy's wickedness.\nfrom the Lord--as His judicial act.\ndo . . . for me--that is, kindness.\nwounded--literally, \"pierced\" (Psa 69:16, Psa 69:29).\nlike the shadow--(Compare Psa 102:11).\ntossed up and down--or, \"driven\" (Exo 10:19).\nTaunts and reproaches aggravate his afflicted and feeble state (Psa 22:6-7).\nLet my deliverance glorify Thee (compare Psa 59:13).\nIn confidence that God's blessing would come on him, and confusion and shame on his enemies (Psa 73:13), he ceases to regard their curses, and anticipates a season of joyful and public thanksgiving; for God is near to protect (Psa 16:8; Psa 34:6) the poor from all unrighteous judges who may condemn him.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 109","type":"page"}