Psalm 109:18

18 Und er zog den Fluch an wie sein Kleid, so dringe er wie Wasser in sein Inneres und wie Öl in seine Gebeine!

Psalm 109:18 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 109:18

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment,
&c.] He was full of it; his mouth was full of cursing and bitterness; it was visible in him, easy to be discerned; he took pride as well as pleasure in it, it was in his esteem an ornament to him, as his clothes were. The Syriac version renders it, "as armour"; as if it was a protection to him, or he thought it to be so.

So let it come into his bowels like water;
the meaning is, let the wrath of God and the curse of the law come into his conscience, and make sad work there, and fill him with dread and terror, and that in great abundance, and with great force; like a flood of waters that carry all before it; or like the waters of jealousy which made the belly to swell and the thigh to rot; or the flying roll of the curse, which entering into the house of the sinner destroyed it, and all in it, ( Numbers 5:22 ) ( Zechariah 5:4 ) .

And like oil into his bones;
which is more piercing and penetrating than water; and signifies the inward and quick sense he should have of his sins, and of the wrath of God for them; see ( Job 20:11 ) .

Psalm 109:18 In-Context

16 Darum daß er nicht gedachte, Güte zu üben, und verfolgte den elenden und armen Mann, und den, der verzagten Herzens war, um ihn zu töten.

17 Und er liebte den Fluch, so komme er auf ihn! Und er hatte kein Gefallen an Segen, so sei er fern von ihm!

18 Und er zog den Fluch an wie sein Kleid, so dringe er wie Wasser in sein Inneres und wie Öl in seine Gebeine!

19 Er sei ihm wie ein Gewand, in das er sich hüllt, und zu einem Gürtel, womit er stets sich gürtet!

20 Das sei der Lohn meiner Widersacher von seiten Jehovas, und derer, die Böses reden wider meine Seele!