Psalms 109
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Lutheran reading notes
In Psalms chapter 109, the wisdom literature continues to explore prayer, worship, lament, praise, and trust in God. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. {of the deceitful: Heb. of deceit} {are opened: Heb. have opened themselves}
Psalms 109:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 109:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For my love they are my adversaries: but I {give myself unto} prayer.
Psalms 109:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Psalms 109:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. {Satan: or, an adversary}
Psalms 109:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. {be condemned: Heb. go out guilty, or, wicked}
Psalms 109:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let his days be few; {and} let another take his office. {office: or, charge}
Psalms 109:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek {their bread} also out of their desolate places.
Psalms 109:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Psalms 109:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Psalms 109:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let his posterity be cut off; {and} in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 109:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psalms 109:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Psalms 109:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms 109:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Psalms 109:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. {into his bowels: Heb. within him}
Psalms 109:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let it be unto him as the garment {which} covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Psalms 109:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Let} this {be} the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
Psalms 109:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy {is} good, deliver thou me.
Psalms 109:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I {am} poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms 109:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms 109:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Psalms 109:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I became also a reproach unto them: {when} they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Psalms 109:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
Psalms 109:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That they may know that this {is} thy hand; {that} thou, LORD, hast done it.
Psalms 109:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
Psalms 109:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Psalms 109:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
Psalms 109:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save {him} from those that condemn his soul. {those...: Heb. the judges of}
Psalms 109:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.