
Text -- Psalms 109:31 (NET)




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JFB -> Psa 109:28-31
JFB: Psa 109:28-31 - -- In 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 anticip...
In 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.
Clarke -> Psa 109:31
Clarke: Psa 109:31 - -- He shall stand at the right hand of the poor - Even if Satan himself be the accuser, God will vindicate the innocence of his servant. Pilate and the...
He shall stand at the right hand of the poor - Even if Satan himself be the accuser, God will vindicate the innocence of his servant. Pilate and the Jews condemned our Lord to death as a malefactor; God showed his immaculate innocence by his resurrection from the dead
The whole of this Psalm is understood by many as referring solely to Christ, the traitor Judas, and the wicked Jews. This is the view taken of it in the analysis
Calvin -> Psa 109:31
Calvin: Psa 109:31 - -- Moreover, he also subjoins the form in which he rendered thanks; namely, that God stood at the right hand of the poor By this language he intimates...
Moreover, he also subjoins the form in which he rendered thanks; namely, that God stood at the right hand of the poor By this language he intimates, that when God had apparently forsaken and abandoned him, and stood far from him, even then he was always near and ready to render him seasonable and needful help; and, assuredly, his poverty and affliction gave some reason for suspecting that he was forsaken of God, inasmuch as he then either withdrew or concealed his loving-kindness. Notwithstanding of this seeming departure, he acknowledges that, during his affliction and poverty, God never ceased to be present to render him assistance. In saying that he was saved from the judges of his life, he sets forth, in a still stronger light, the very trying situation in which he was placed; his having to deal with very formidable enemies, such as the king and the princes of the realm, who, proudly presuming upon their grandeur and greatness, and regarding his recovery hopeless, treated him as if he had been a dead dog. It is my firm conviction, that in this passage he complains both of the torturing cruelty of his enemies, and also that his character had been unjustly aspersed by calumny and reproach; for we know that he was borne down by the malignity and wickedness of those who, being invested with authority, boastingly, yet falsely, pretended that they wished to act as judges and as the executors of justice, which plausible pretexts they adopt as a cloak for their iniquity.
TSK -> Psa 109:31
TSK: Psa 109:31 - -- For he : Psa 16:8, Psa 73:23, Psa 110:5, Psa 121:5
poor : Psa 109:16, Psa 68:5, Psa 72:4, Psa 72:12, Psa 72:13, Psa 140:12
to save : Psa 10:14; Exo 22...
For he : Psa 16:8, Psa 73:23, Psa 110:5, Psa 121:5
poor : Psa 109:16, Psa 68:5, Psa 72:4, Psa 72:12, Psa 72:13, Psa 140:12
to save : Psa 10:14; Exo 22:22-24; Pro 22:22, Pro 22:23; Ecc 5:8; Isa 54:17; Act 4:10-12; Act 5:30, Act 5:31
those that condemn : Heb. the judges of

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Barnes -> Psa 109:31
Barnes: Psa 109:31 - -- For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor - He will thus show that he befriends the poor and the helpless. To save him from those t...
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor - He will thus show that he befriends the poor and the helpless.
To save him from those that condemn his soul - - Margin, "from the judges of his soul."The Hebrew is, "from those that judge his soul."The meaning is, from those that pronounce a harsh or unjust judgment; from those that condemn the innocent.
Poole -> Psa 109:31
Poole: Psa 109:31 - -- At the right hand of the poor to defend him from his adversary, who stood in that place to accuse him, and to procure his condemnation and destructio...
At the right hand of the poor to defend him from his adversary, who stood in that place to accuse him, and to procure his condemnation and destruction. See Poole "Psa 109:6" .
That condemn his soul that pass a sentence of death upon him.
PBC -> Psa 109:31
See Philpot: CHRIST THE FRIEND AND SURETY OF HIS POOR
Gill -> Psa 109:31
Gill: Psa 109:31 - -- For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor,.... Of the Messiah, as in Psa 109:22 at whose right hand the Lord was, to guide and direct, help and...
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor,.... Of the Messiah, as in Psa 109:22 at whose right hand the Lord was, to guide and direct, help and assist, protect and defend, Psa 16:8, or of his people, who are poor in every sense; but the Lord is on their side, and is a present help in time of trouble, Psa 46:1.
To save him from those that condemn his soul: the Messiah: from his judges, the high priest and Jewish sanhedrim, and Pilate the Roman governor, who condemned him to death; but he committed his spirit, or soul, to God, who received it, and raised his body from the dead; and would not suffer it to see corruption, as a testimony of his innocence: or the soul of the poor saints, which the Lord saves from the condemnation of sin, Satan, the law, and their own consciences, Rom 8:1.

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NET Notes -> Psa 109:31
Geneva Bible -> Psa 109:31
Geneva Bible: Psa 109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that ( r ) condemn his soul.
( r ) By this he shows that he had nothing to...

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 109:1-31
TSK Synopsis: Psa 109:1-31 - --1 David, complaining of his slanderous enemies, under the person of Judas devotes them.16 He shews their sin.21 Complaining of his own misery, he pray...
MHCC -> Psa 109:21-31
MHCC: Psa 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 ...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 109:21-31
Matthew Henry: Psa 109:21-31 - -- David, having denounced God's wrath against his enemies, here takes God's comforts to himself, but in a very humble manner, and without boasting. I....
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 109:26-31
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 109:26-31 - --
The cry for help is renewed in the closing strophe, and the Psalm draws to a close very similarly to Ps 69 and Ps 22, with a joyful prospect of the ...
Constable: Psa 107:1--150:6 - --V. Book 5: chs. 107--150
There are 44 psalms in this section of the Psalter. David composed 15 of these (108-110...

Constable: Psa 109:1-31 - --Psalm 109
This is one of the imprecatory psalms in which the writer called on God to avenge his enemies.
