Psalm Chapter 109

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

Psalm 109:1 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.

To be falsely accused and misunderstood is not easy to live with. David went through this many times. Jesus went through this also. That is why the Psalms are sometimes a prophecy as well as what was happening to David himself. Jesus who is the Christ, the Son of God suffered terribly. He surely did not deserve the things that were done to Him. Yet He left Heaven to become a human being to show us the way to God.

Mankind does not like to be confronted with his sin. When Jesus came, the Holy Spirit was present to convict of sin. If we resist the Holy Spirit and do not repent, we usually will get angry instead. This in turn will harden our hearts and we get further away from God. One who humbles himself and repents allowing God to change his or her life, will receive joy, peace and the love of God in their souls. They will inherit eternal life. To resist God causes misery. To listen to God causes peace.

Psalm 109:4 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.

This describes the future son of David, as well as David himself who was betrayed by his own friends.

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.

This verse describes Judas who betrayed Jesus Christ. His own disciple betrayed Jesus and turned on him. A lot of things that happened to David pointed toward the day when the future king of Israel would suffer for the sins of the whole world.

Psalm 109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

This happened when Judas killed himself and left his wife and children without a father.

Psalm 109:10 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.

When we are cruel and persecute the innocent and have no compassion on the poor, we bring a curse not only upon ourselves but on our descendants.

Psalm 109:17 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.

A curse also comes upon those that reject Jesus Christ. It will effect future generations and bring harm to the children of those that reject the word of God. This can be broken at any time if any one of them receive Jesus. This will break the curse of the law. The law condemns but Jesus frees the condemned soul and brings in a new life and the hope of eternal life.

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.

Like I said before, in much of the psalms I see Jesus. This happened to Jesus when He was upon the cross suffering the just for the unjust. Many passed by shaking their heads in wonder, mocking Jesus and taunting Him to come down from the cross if He was the Son of God. Little did they know that if Jesus had of saved Himself, we could not have ever been saved. He forced Himself to remain on the cross so that all who believe in Him can be saved. Glory to God for His work on our behalf.

2Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Psalm 109:26 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.

This will happen also in the end when those that receive Jesus Christ will be exalted and those that rejected God's plan of salvation will be put to shame.

Psalm 109:30 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.

If God is for a person, no one can succeed against the person.

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Why do we resist? Why to we hesitate? Through Jesus is eternal life and freedom from sin. We can choose life or death. Why do so many choose death? DC

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