Psalm 102:8

8 Cada día me afrentan mis enemigos; los que se enfurecen contra mí, se han conjurado contra mí

Psalm 102:8 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 102:8

Mine enemies reproach me all the day
For his principles and practices, being different from theirs; for his religion, and preciseness in it; for his faith and profession of it, and for his holy walk and conversation. Good men have their enemies, and always had; but then they are such who are also enemies to God and Christ, and true religion; and these, not content to reproach now and then, continually throw out their scoffs and jeers; which is not grateful, and is here mentioned as an article of complaint; though the saints should reckon reproach for the sake of Christ and religion greater riches than all the treasures in Egypt:

and they that are mad against me;
as the Jews were against Christ, because of his miracles, doctrine, and success, and therefore sought to take away his life; and as the Apostle Paul before conversion was, even exceeding mad against the saints, and persecuted them to strange cities, ( Luke 6:11 ) ( Acts 26:11 ) , so were the psalmist's enemies quite outrageous and implacable, being his sworn enemies, as follows:

are sworn against me:
laid themselves under a curse, to do him all the mischief they could, and it may be to take away his life; as those who sware they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul, ( Acts 23:12 ) or they sware to lies, false charges and accusations brought against him, like those that Jezebel suborned against Naboth: or "they sware by me" ^F18; as the words may be rendered; they sware by his calamities and distresses, and wished they might be as he was, if they did not do so and so; and took his name for a curse.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (webvn yb) "per me jurant", Tigurine version, Musculus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Psalm 102:8 In-Context

6 Soy semejante al pelícano del desierto; soy como el búho de las soledades

7 Velo, y soy como el pájaro solitario sobre el tejado

8 Cada día me afrentan mis enemigos; los que se enfurecen contra mí, se han conjurado contra mí

9 Por lo cual como la ceniza a manera de pan, y mi bebida mezclo con lloro

10 a causa de tu enojo y de tu ira; porque me alzaste, y me arrojaste