Salmi 109:1-9

1 Salmo di Davide dato al capo dei Musici. O DIO della mia lode, non tacere;

2 Perciocchè la bocca dell’empio e la bocca di frode si sono aperte contro a me; Hanno parlato meco con lingua bugiarda;

3 E mi hanno assediato con parole d’odio; E mi hanno fatta guerra senza cagione.

4 In vece dell’amore che ho loro portato, mi sono stati avversari; Ed io ho loro renduta preghiera.

5 Essi mi hanno renduto male per bene, E odio per lo mio amore.

6 Costituisci il maligno sopra lui; E fa’ che Satana gli stia alla destra.

7 Quando sarà giudicato, esca condannato; E la sua preghiera gli torni in peccato.

8 Sieno i suoi giorni pochi; Un altro prenda il suo ufficio.

9 Sieno i suoi figliuoli orfani, E la sua moglie vedova.

Salmi 109:1-9 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.