Salmos 109:1-10

1 Salmo 109
Para el director del coro: salmo de David.
Oh Dios, a quien alabo,
no te quedes distante y callado

2 mientras los perversos me calumnian
y dicen mentiras acerca de mí.

3 Me rodean con palabras de odio
y sin razón pelean contra mí.

4 Yo los amo, pero ellos tratan de destruirme con acusaciones,
¡incluso mientras oro por ellos!

5 Me devuelven mal por bien
y odio a cambio de mi amor.

6 Dicen:
«Consigan a un malvado para que se ponga en su contra;
envíen a un acusador para que lo lleve a juicio.

7 Cuando llegue el momento de juzgar su caso,
que lo declaren culpable.
Tomen como pecados sus oraciones.

8 Que sean pocos sus años;
que otro tome su lugar.

9 Que sus hijos queden huérfanos de padre,
y su esposa quede viuda.

10 Que sus hijos vaguen como mendigos
y que los echen de sus hogares destruidos.

Salmos 109:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

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.