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href="../psalms/109-19.htm" title="Psalm 109:19">◄</a> Psalm 109:20 <a href="../psalms/109-21.htm" title="Psalm 109:21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse"><i>Let</i> this <i>be</i> the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/psalms/109.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/psalms/109.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/psalms/109.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/psalms/109.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/psalms/109.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/psalms/109.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/psalms/109.htm" 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Commentary</a></div>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.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/psalms/109.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord,... - The word rendered "reward" means usually work, labor, occupation, business; then, what one earns by his work - reward, recompence, <a href="/leviticus/19-13.htm">Leviticus 19:13</a>. The meaning here is, Let them constantly receive these things which I have prayed for <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-6.htm">Psalm 109:6-19</a>; let them be constantly treated in this manner. This is a summing up of his entire wish - his whole desire. It cannot be proved that they did "not deserve" all this; it cannot be shown that if all this came upon them at the hand of God, it would be unjust; it cannot be denied that such things as these, either singly, in groups, or in succession, do actually come upon wicked people; and the prayer in the case "may" have been merely that justice might be done. Still, as before remarked, it is not easy wholly to vindicate the expressed feelings of the psalmist. See the notes at <a href="/psalms/109-10.htm">Psalm 109:10</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/psalms/109.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>20. Let this … reward—or, "wages," pay for labor, the fruit of the enemy's wickedness.<p>from the Lord—as His judicial act.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/psalms/109.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">Of mine adversaries; </span> of those who were confederate with that arch enemy in his wicked enterprise. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Against my soul; </span> with design to take away my life. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/psalms/109.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord,.... Who were so many Satans, as the word used signifies; and Judas particularly is called a devil; and of the same malevolent and diabolical disposition were the Jews in general, <a href="/john/6-70.htm">John 6:70</a> and what is before imprecated upon them is the just recompence of reward for their hatred to Christ and ill usage of him. <p>And of them that speak evil against my soul; or "life" (f); in order to take it away, as did the false witnesses that rose up against him, and the Jews who charged him with sedition and blasphemy. <p>(f) "contra vitam meam", Gejerus. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/psalms/109.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2"><i>Let</i> this <i>be</i> the reward of mine adversaries <span class="cverse3">{k}</span> from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.</span><p>(k) For being destitute of man's help, he fully trusted in the Lord, that he would deliver him.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/psalms/109.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">20</span>. Let <span class="ital">this</span> be <span class="ital">the reward</span>] Or as R.V., This (is) the reward; the wages, as the word implies, which they have earned by their behaviour.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">adversaries</span>] See note on <span class="ital"><a href="/psalms/109-4.htm" title="For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer.">Psalm 109:4</a></span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/109.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 20.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord</span>; rather, <span class="accented">this is the reward</span>, or <span class="accented">the wages.</span> This is what their conduct has <span class="accented">earned</span>, and what they have received, or assuredly will receive. <span class="cmt_word">And of them that speak evil against my soul</span> (see above, ver. 2). Psalm 109:20<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/psalms/109.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>He whom he persecuted with a thirst for blood, was, apart from this, a great sufferer, bowed down and poor and נכאה לבב, of terrified, confounded heart. lxx κατανενυγμένον (Jerome, compunctum); but the stem-word is not נכא (נכה), root נך, but כּאה, Syriac bā'ā', cogn. כּהה, to cause to come near, to meet. The verb, and more especially in Niph., is proved to be Hebrew by <a href="/daniel/11-30.htm">Daniel 11:30</a>. Such an one who without anything else is of a terrified heart, inasmuch as he has been made to feel the wrath of God most keenly, this man has persecuted with a deadly hatred. He had experienced kindness (חסד) in a high degree, but he blotted out of his memory that which he had experienced, not for an instant imagining that he too on his part had to exercise חסד. The Poel מותת instead of המית points to the agonizing death (<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/53-9.htm">Isaiah 53:9</a>, cf. <a href="/ezekiel/28-10.htm">Ezekiel 28:10</a> מותי) to which he exposes God's anointed. The fate of the shedder of blood is not expressed after the manner of a wish in <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/109-16.htm">Psalm 109:16-18</a>, but in the historical form, as being the result that followed of inward necessity from the matter of fact of the course which he had himself determined upon. The verb בּוא seq. acc. signifies to surprise, suddenly attack any one, as in <a href="/isaiah/41-25.htm">Isaiah 41:25</a>. The three figures in <a href="/psalms/109-18.htm">Psalm 109:18</a> are climactic: he has clothed himself in cursing, he has drunk it in like water (<a href="/job/15-16.htm">Job 15:16</a>; <a href="/job/34-7.htm">Job 34:7</a>), it has penetrated even to the marrow of his bones, like the oily preparations which are rubbed in and penetrate to the bones.n In <a href="/psalms/109-19.htm">Psalm 109:19</a> the emphasis rests upon יעטּה and upon תּמיד. The summarizing <a href="/psalms/109-20.htm">Psalm 109:20</a> is the close of a strophe. פּעלּה, an earned reward, here punishment incurred, is especially frequent in <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/40-1.htm">Isaiah 40:1</a>, e.g., <a href="/psalms/49-4.htm">Psalm 49:4</a>; <a href="/psalms/40-10.htm">Psalm 40:10</a>; it also occurs once even in the Tra, <a href="/leviticus/19-13.htm">Leviticus 19:13</a>. Those who answer the loving acts of the righteous with such malevolence in word and in deed commit a satanic sin for which there is no forgiveness. The curse is the fruit of their own choice and deed. 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