Tehillim 109:3

3 They surrounded me also with divrei sinah (words of hatred); and attacked me without cause.

Tehillim 109:3 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 109:3

They compassed me about also with words of hatred
They surrounded him as he hung on the cross, and expressed their malice and hatred against him; then was he enclosed with these spiteful snarling dogs, and encompassed by them as with so many bees, who everyone left their sting in him, ( Psalms 22:16 ) ( 118:12 ) .

And fought against me without a cause:
they were of an hostile spirit, enemies and enmity itself against him; fought against him both with words and blows, with their tongues and with their fists; sought his life, and at length took it away; he was attacked by the body of the Jewish nation, and by the whole posse of devils; and all this without any cause or just reason: he gave them no occasion for this enmity and malice, and opposition to him; and it was in the issue without effect, it was in vain and to no purpose; for though they gained their point in putting him to death, yet he rose again a triumphant Conqueror over them all.

Tehillim 109:3 In-Context

1 09 (For the one directing. Of Dovid. Mizmor) Hold not Thy peace, O Elohei tehillati;

2 For the mouth of the rasha and the mouth of the mirmah are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a leshon sheker (a lying tongue).

3 They surrounded me also with divrei sinah (words of hatred); and attacked me without cause.

4 In return for my ahavah they are my adversaries; but I give myself unto tefillah (prayer).

5 Thus they have laid upon me ra’ah for tovah, and sinah for my ahavah.