Salmos 109

1 Oh Dios de mi alabanza, no calles.

2 Porque contra mí han abierto su boca impía y engañosa; con lengua mentirosa han hablado contra mí.

3 Me han rodeado también con palabras de odio, y sin causa han luchado contra mí.

4 En pago de mi amor, obran como mis acusadores, pero yo oro.

5 Así me han pagado mal por bien, y odio por mi amor.

6 Pon a un impío sobre él, y que un acusador esté a su diestra.

7 Cuando sea juzgado, salga culpable, y su oración se convierta en pecado.

8 Sean pocos sus días, y que otro tome su cargo;

9 sean huérfanos sus hijos, y viuda su mujer;

10 vaguen errantes sus hijos, y mendiguen, y busquen el sustento lejos de sus hogares en ruinas.

11 Que el acreedor se apodere de todo lo que tiene, y extraños saqueen el fruto de su trabajo.

12 Que no haya quien le extienda misericordia, ni haya quien se apiade de sus huérfanos;

13 sea exterminada su posteridad, su nombre sea borrado en la siguiente generación.

14 Sea recordada ante el SEÑOR la iniquidad de sus padres, y no sea borrado el pecado de su madre.

15 Estén continuamente delante del SEÑOR, para que El corte de la tierra su memoria;

16 porque él no se acordó de mostrar misericordia, sino que persiguió al afligido, al necesitado y al de corazón decaído para matarlos.

17 También amaba la maldición, y ésta vino sobre él; no se deleitó en la bendición, y ella se alejó de él.

18 Se vistió de maldición como si fuera su manto, y entró como agua en su cuerpo, y como aceite en sus huesos.

19 Séale como vestidura con que se cubra, y por cinto con que se ciña siempre.

20 Sea esta la paga del SEÑOR para mis acusadores, y para los que hablan mal contra mi alma.

21 Mas tú, oh DIOS, Señor, por amor de tu nombre hazme bien; líbrame, pues es buena tu misericordia;

22 porque afligido y necesitado estoy, y mi corazón está herido dentro de mí.

23 Voy pasando como sombra que se alarga; soy sacudido como la langosta.

24 Mis rodillas están débiles por el ayuno, y mi carne sin gordura ha enflaquecido.

25 Me he convertido también en objeto de oprobio para ellos; cuando me ven, menean la cabeza.

26 Ayúdame, SEÑOR, Dios mío, sálvame conforme a tu misericordia;

27 y que sepan que esta es tu mano, que tú, SEÑOR, lo has hecho.

28 Maldigan ellos, pero tú bendice; cuando se levanten, serán avergonzados, mas tu siervo se alegrará.

29 Sean vestidos de oprobio mis acusadores, y cúbranse con su propia verguenza como con un manto.

30 Con mi boca daré abundantes gracias al SEÑOR, y en medio de la multitud le alabaré.

31 Porque El está a la diestra del pobre, para salvarle de los que juzgan su alma.

Salmos 109 Commentary

Chapter 109

David complains of his enemies. (1-5) He prophesies their destruction. (6-20) Prayers and praises. (21-31)

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.

Verses 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.

Verses 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. O, Satans

Chapter Summary

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. This psalm was written by David, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, concerning Judas the betrayer of Christ, as is certain from Acts 1:16 hence it is used to be called by the ancients the Iscariotic psalm. Whether the occasion of it was the rebellion of Absalom, as some, or the persecution of Saul, as Kimchi; and whoever David might have in view particularly, whether Ahithophel, or Doeg the Edomite, as is most likely; yet it is evident that the Holy Ghost foresaw the sin of Judas, and prophesies of that, and of the ruin and misery that should come upon him; for the imprecations in this psalm are no other than predictions of future events, and so are not to be drawn into an example by men; nor do they breathe out anything contrary to the spirit of Christianity, but are proofs of it, since what is here predicted has been exactly accomplished. The title in the Syriac version is, "a psalm of David when they created Absalom king without his knowledge, and for this cause he was slain; but to us it expounds the sufferings of the Christ of God;" and indeed he is the person that is all along speaking in this psalm.