--- title: "Psalms 109 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Psalms 109 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 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" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/psalms/109" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/109)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/109)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/109) Audio 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. 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. 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. 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.* [Psalms 108](/study/psalms/108) [Psalms 110](/study/psalms/110) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Psalms 109:0](/kjv/psalms/109/0). *David complaining of his slanderous enemies, under the person of Judas, devoteth them: he sheweth their sin: complaining of his own misery, he prayth for help: he promiseth thankfulness.* To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. ***Title.*****מזמור********לדוד********למנצח*********lamnatseach ledavid mizmor.*****—** There is no doubt that this psalm was composed by David; but whether when he was persecuted by Saul and calumniated by Doeg (see [1 Samuel 26:19](/kjv/1-samuel/26/19).), or whether at the time of Absalom's rebellion, is uncertain. Several of the Jewish, interpreters think the former; though the Syriac translators understood it of the latter; if so, it refers to the traitor Ahithophel, who, in a fit of despair, went and hanged himself, [2 Samuel 17:23](/kjv/2-samuel/17/23). In this last circumstance, he answers most exactly. But certain it is, that either Doeg or Ahithophel was a fit type and representative of the traitor Judas; who, without all question, was prophetically intended in this psalm, for so St. Peter expounds it, [Acts 1:26](/kjv/acts/1/26). If therefore we consider it in its first sense as relating to one of them, yet in its principal and prophetic sense it refers to Judas and the persecutors of our Lord; against whom the Psalmist denounces the most dreadful judgments. And in this sense the curses, as they are called, can give no offence to any well-disposed mind; for in reality they are mere prophetic denunciations, and in that view should be translated throughout in the future, as we have had occasion to observe more than once before. To this effect Theodoret observes well, that, though our Saviour commands us to bless our persecutors, no one should think this prophesy repugnant to that command: for the Psalmist does not speak here by way of imprecation, but foretels the future punishment which should attend Judas and the unmerciful Jews who betrayed and persecuted Christ. ***[Psalms 109:1](/kjv/psalms/109/1)*****.*****Hold not thy peace*****—** The idea of God's holding his peace or keeping silence is opposed to his affording his gracious aid and protection to his servants. *Of my praise,*means, "who art the subject of my praise, or, who hath hitherto given me continual cause to praise thee." 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