Salmos 109

Al director musical. Salmo de David.

1 Oh Dios, alabanza mía,no guardes silencio.

2 Pues gente impía y mentirosaha declarado en mi contra,y con lengua engañosa me difaman;

3 con expresiones de odio me acosan,y sin razón alguna me atacan.

4 Mi amor me lo pagan con calumnias,mientras yo me encomiendo a Dios.

5 Mi bondad la pagan con maldad;en vez de amarme, me aborrecen.

6 Pon en su contra a un malvado;que a su derecha esté su acusador.^[a]

7 Que resulte culpable al ser juzgado,y que sus propias oraciones lo condenen.

8 Que se acorten sus días,y que otro se haga cargo de su oficio.

9 Que se queden huérfanos sus hijos;que se quede viuda su esposa.

10 Que anden sus hijos vagando y mendigando;que anden rebuscando entre las ruinas.

11 Que sus acreedores se apoderen de sus bienes;que gente extraña saquee sus posesiones.

12 Que nadie le extienda su bondad;que nadie se compadezca de sus huérfanos.

13 Que sea exterminada su descendencia;que desaparezca su nombre en la próxima generación.

14 Que recuerde el SEÑOR la iniquidad de su padre,y no se olvide del pecado de su madre.

15 Que no les quite el SEÑOR la vista de encima,y que borre de la tierra su memoria.

16 Por cuanto se olvidó de hacer el bien,y persiguió hasta la muertea pobres, afligidos y menesterosos,

17 y porque le encantaba maldecir,¡que caiga sobre él la maldición!Por cuanto no se complacía en bendecir,¡que se aleje de él la bendición!

18 Por cuanto se cubrió de maldicióncomo quien se pone un vestido,¡que esta se filtre en su cuerpo como el agua!,¡que penetre en sus huesos como el aceite!

19 ¡Que lo envuelva como un manto!¡Que lo apriete en todo tiempo como un cinto!

20 ¡Que así les pague el SEÑOR a mis acusadores,a los que me calumnian!

21 Pero tú, SEÑOR Soberano,trátame bien por causa de tu nombre;líbrame por tu bondad y gran amor.

22 Ciertamente soy pobre y estoy necesitado;profundamente herido está mi corazón.

23 Me voy desvaneciendo como sombra vespertina;se desprenden de mí como de una langosta.

24 De tanto ayunar me tiemblan las rodillas;la piel se me pega a los huesos.

25 Soy para ellos motivo de burla;me ven, y menean la cabeza.

26 SEÑOR, mi Dios, ¡ayúdame!;por tu gran amor, ¡sálvame!

27 Que sepan que esta es tu mano;que tú mismo, SEÑOR, lo has hecho.

28 ¿Qué importa que ellos me maldigan?¡Bendíceme tú!Pueden atacarme, pero quedarán avergonzados;en cambio, este siervo tuyo se alegrará.

29 ¡Queden mis acusadores cubiertos de deshonra,envueltos en un manto de vergüenza!

30 Por mi parte, daré muchas gracias al SEÑOR;lo alabaré entre una gran muchedumbre.

31 Porque él aboga por el^[b] necesitadopara salvarlo de quienes lo condenan.

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]. "esté su acusador" . Alt. "esté Satán" .
• [b]. "aboga por el" . Lit. "está de pie a la diestra del" .

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.