Salmos 109:18

18 Y se vistió de maldición como de su vestido, y entró como agua en sus entrañas, y como aceite en sus huesos

Salmos 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 ) .

Salmos 109:18 In-Context

16 Por cuanto no se acordó de hacer misericordia, y persiguió al varón pobre en espíritu, y menesteroso, y quebrantado de corazón, para matarlo

17 Y amó la maldición, y ésta le sobrevino; y no quiso la bendición, y ella se alejó de él

18 Y se vistió de maldición como de su vestido, y entró como agua en sus entrañas, y como aceite en sus huesos

19 Séale como vestido con que se cubra, y en lugar del cinto con que se ciña siempre

20 Este sea el pago de parte del SEÑOR de los que me calumnian, y de los que hablan mal contra mi alma