Psalm 109:1 ¶ «To the chief
Musician, A Psalm of David.» Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; 2 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. 3 They compassed me about also
with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. 4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give
myself unto prayer. 5 And they have
rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
For the mouth of the wicked see what was done to Christ.
Matthew 26:59 Now the chief
priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus,
to put him to death; 60 But found none:
yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came
two false witnesses, 61 And said, This
fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three
days. 62 And the high priest arose, and
said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against
thee?
See how they attacked Christ as prophesied in Psalm 22.
Psalm 22:11 ¶ Be not far
from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of
Bashan have beset me round. 13 They
gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
For verse 4 consider;
Psalm 38:20 They also that
render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good
is.
Christ, God in the flesh or the Son of God with an uppercase S,
loved mankind and was rewarded for His love with hatred.
John 3:16 For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 15:18 If the world
hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you…25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might
be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Luke 6:11 And they were
filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
12 ¶ And it came to pass in those days,
that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to
God.
Luke 23:34a Then said
Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do…
Psalm 109:6 ¶ Set thou a
wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be judged, let him be
condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 8
Let his days be few; and let another take his office. 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife
a widow. 10 Let his children be
continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of
their desolate places. 11 Let the
extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy
unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in
the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered
with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that
he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. 16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy,
but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come
unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 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. 19 Let it be unto him as the
garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded
continually. 20 Let this be
the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil
against my soul.
As Satan tested Christ as detailed in Matthew and Luke so did
Judas betray Him at Satan’s prompting. Here is a direct link to Judas as per
the New Testament. Here is allusion to verses 8 to 15 where Judas’ office as a
chosen Apostle is linked. An allusion is when a verse or verses are referenced
but not quoted directly, so that the Holy Spirit can make a point.
Acts 1:15 ¶ And in those
days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of
names together were about an hundred and twenty,) 16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs
have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before
concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. 17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained
part of this ministry. 18 Now this man
purchased a field with the reward of iniquity;
and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his
bowels gushed out. 19 And it was known
unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their
proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood. 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let
his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick
let another take.
Both passages deal with a traitor whom God condemns and David
curses here in Psalms (Ahithophel perhaps?). We don’t have any information
about Judas’ family’s fate so we need not take this further than the Spirit of
God did in cross-referencing.
Psalm 109:21 ¶ But do thou
for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good,
deliver thou me. 22 For I am poor
and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. 25 I became also a reproach unto them: when
they looked upon me they shaked their heads. 26
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy: 27 That they may know that this is thy
hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it. 28
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice. 29 Let mine
adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own
confusion, as with a mantle. 30 I will
greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the
multitude. 31 For he shall stand at the
right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
The Psalmist is pleading with God for help not because the
Psalmist is good but for the sake of God’s name because it is in His nature to
show mercy. He declares that he is poor and that his heart is wounded.
Psalm 69:16 Hear me, O
LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude
of thy tender mercies.
He declares that his condition is altogether precarious.
Psalm 102:11 My days are
like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
He has suffered much unable or unwilling to even eat and has
suffered contempt.
Psalm 69:9 For the zeal of
thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee
are fallen upon me. 10 When I wept, and
chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became
a proverb to them.
A reproach is the opposite of speaking well of someone.
1Timothy 3:7 Moreover he
must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach
and the snare of the devil.
He repeats a plea for help according to God’s mercy as in verse 21.
He wants his enemies, his persecutors, to know that it is God who is chastising
them on his behalf. It is then he promises to praise God for God’s deliverance
from those who would wish him harm.
Psalm 22:25 My praise shall
be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear
him.
We, as Christians, can be assured through this Psalm, in our
troubles.
Romans 8:1 ¶ There is
therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit…33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s
elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who
is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again,
who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? 36 As it is written,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things
we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We should take great assurance in this Psalm as we stand against
our mortal enemy, Satan, also known as Lucifer, the Accuser of the Brethren,
and slanderer in chief.
Revelation 12:10 And I
heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and
the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren
is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
What are you going through right now? Have you been lied about? Is
there someone who condemns you and you are innocent? Do you feel alone? Just
remember that you and God make a majority against any number of persecutors or
difficult and crushing circumstances when Satan is trying to destroy your
testimony and rob you of your joy. Amen.
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