1O GOD of my praise! Keep not silence, 2For the mouths of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me; they have spoken to me and against me with lying tongues.
3They have compassed me about also with words of hatred and have fought against me without a cause.
4In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I resort to prayer.
5And they have rewarded and laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6Set a wicked man over him [as a judge], and let [a malicious] accuser stand at his right hand.
7When [the wicked] is judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer [for leniency] be turned into a sin.
8Let his days be few; and let another take his office and charge.
9Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
10Let his children be continual vagabonds [as was Cain] and beg; let them seek their bread and be driven far from their ruined homes.
11Let the creditor and extortioner seize all that he has; and let strangers (barbarians and foreigners) plunder the fruits of his labor.
12Let there be none to extend or continue mercy and kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their names be blotted out.
14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15Let them be before the Lord continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth!--
16Because the man did not [earnestly] remember to show mercy, but pursued and persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart [he was ready] to slay.
17Yes, he loved cursing, and it came [back] upon him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, and it seeped into his inward [life] like water, and like oil into his bones.
19Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself and as the girdle with which he is girded continually.
20Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord, and of those who speak evil against my life.
21But You deal with me and act for me, O God the Lord, for Your name's sake; because Your mercy and loving-kindness are good, O deliver me.
22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded and stricken within me.
23I am gone like the shadow when it lengthens and declines; I toss up and down and am shaken off as the locust.
24My knees are weak and totter from fasting; and my body is gaunt and has no fatness.
25I have become also a reproach and a taunt to others; when they see me, they shake their heads.
26Help me, O Lord my God; O save me according to Your mercy and loving-kindness!--
27That they may know that this is Your hand, that You, Lord, have done it.
28Let them curse, but do You bless. When adversaries arise, let them be put to shame, but let Your servant rejoice.
29Let my adversaries be clothed with shame and dishonor, and let them cover themselves with their own disgrace and confusion as with a robe.
30I will give great praise and thanks to the Lord with my mouth; yes, and I will praise Him among the multitude.
31For He will stand at the right hand of the poor and needy, to save him from those who condemn his life.
The Big Picture:
DAVID COMPLAINS OF HIS ENEMIES. 109:1-5
It is the unspeakable comfort of all believers, that whoever is against them, God is for them; and to him they may apply as to one pleased to concern himself for them. David's enemies laughed at him for his devotion, but they could not laugh him out of it. David's enemies laughed at him for his devotion, but they could not laugh him out of it.
HE PROPHESIES THEIR DESTRUCTION. 109:6-20
The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on some of his enemies, to warn others. When men reject the salvation of Christ, even their prayers are numbered among their sins. See what hurries some to shameful deaths, and brings the families and estates of others to ruin; makes them and theirs despicable and hateful, and brings poverty, shame, and misery upon their posterity: it is sin, that mischievous, destructive thing. And what will be the effect of the sentence, "Go, ye cursed," upon the bodies and souls of the wicked! How it will affect the senses of the body, and the powers of the soul, with pain, anguish, horror, and despair! Think on these things, sinners, tremble and repent.
PRAYERS AND PRAISES. 109:21-31
The psalmist takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner. He was troubled in mind. His body was wasted, and almost worn away. But it is better to have leanness in the body, while the soul prospers and is in health, than to have leanness in the soul, while the body is feasted. He was ridiculed and reproached by his enemies. But if God bless us, we need not care who curses us; for how can they curse whom God has not cursed; nay, whom he has blessed? He pleads God's glory, and the honour of his name. Save me, not according to my merit, for I pretend to none, but according to thy-mercy. He concludes with the joy of faith, in assurance that his present conflicts would end in triumphs. Let all that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him. Jesus, unjustly put to death, and now risen again, is an Advocate and Intercessor for his people, ever ready to appear on their behalf against a corrupt world, and the great accuser.
The Bottomline: We all know what it is like to be condemned by others = sometimes unjustly. Sometimes we are attcked by all of those very painful memories of the abuse that we had suffered by the hands of others. It is then we need to turn to God for our relief He will fill our hearts with His love and help us to forgive those who speak hateful words against us. We can rest in him and do our best to love those whom hurt us. It takes great humility to entrust our lives to God. One of the most difficult parts as children of God is to fully admit our own helplesness if we truly to be overcomers in one's own personal dependancy alone. We have discovered what happens to us by doing things on our own way. We become enslaved to our own desire and appetites. Dependeance on God and His program, is the only road to freedom. We alway's need to remember, however, that alhough God calls us to be childlike in our spirit, he does Not want us to be childish in one's behavior. We need to know or realize that we ought to have a deep pentrating devotion unto God to bring us through everything in our lives in the intimacy to see us through it in our life with integrityin one's covenant unto God. For our God is unshakable in our foundation simply states that Our Gos is the author both of this world and His Word as do stand accountable unto the Lord in our very lives that Never changes.His Holy Spirit is what keeps everyone in check in what we do or do not do in our life. We have an appreciation of the Lord in all things with peace and joy unto Him as we walk it with the Lord and then unto others to help them find the true way of life.
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