the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Psalms 109:4
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I love them, but they try to destroy me with accusations even as I am praying for them!
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
In return for my love they are my adversaries: But I [give myself to] prayer.
They attacked me, even though I loved them and prayed for them.
They repay my love with accusations, but I continue to pray.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself to] prayer.
In return for my love, they attack me, But I am in prayer.
In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.
For that thing that thei schulden loue me, thei bacbitiden me; but Y preiede.
In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
I had pity and prayed for my enemies, but their words to me were harsh and cruel.
For my love they are my adversaries: But I give myself unto prayer.
For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.
In return for my love they became my accusers, even though I prayed for them.
For my love they are mine adversaries; but I [give myself unto] prayer.
I loved them, but they were against me. So I said a prayer.
In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.
For my loue, they are my aduersaries: but I giue my selfe vnto prayer.
I give them my love but they speak against me in return. But I am in prayer.
In return for my love they accuse me, even while I make prayer for them.
For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.
For my love they reproach me; but I have prayed for them.
They oppose me, even though I love them and have prayed for them.
For my love, they have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer:
(108-4) Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
In return for my love they accuse me, even as I make prayer for them.
For the loue that I bare vnto them, they are become mine aduersaries: but I geue my selfe vnto prayer.
Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me: but I continued to pray.
In return for my love they accuse me,but I continue to pray.
In return for my love, they are my adversaries; But I am in prayer.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
In return for my love they accuse me, though I am in prayer.
In return for my love, they are my enemies; but I am in prayer.
For my love they oppose me, and I -- prayer!
Thus they rewarde me euell for good, & hatred for my good will.
In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer.
In return for my love they are my accusers, But I give myself to prayer.
In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer.
In return for my love they accuse me;But I am in prayer.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
For my: Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:12, Psalms 38:20, 2 Samuel 13:39, John 10:32, 2 Corinthians 12:15
but I: Psalms 55:16, Psalms 55:17, Psalms 69:12, Psalms 69:13, 2 Samuel 15:31, 2 Samuel 15:32, Daniel 6:10, Luke 6:11, Luke 6:12, Luke 23:34
Reciprocal: Genesis 37:18 - conspired Numbers 20:6 - they fell Judges 9:18 - are risen Judges 12:1 - Wherefore 1 Samuel 8:6 - prayed 1 Samuel 15:11 - he cried 1 Samuel 19:4 - because his works 2 Samuel 10:4 - and shaved 1 Chronicles 19:4 - took David's 2 Chronicles 24:22 - remembered Job 16:20 - poureth Job 19:19 - they whom Proverbs 17:13 - General Jeremiah 18:19 - Give Jeremiah 18:20 - evil Jeremiah 43:3 - to deliver Micah 7:7 - I will look Mark 1:35 - General Mark 3:6 - Pharisees Mark 14:32 - while Luke 9:28 - into Luke 20:43 - General Luke 24:44 - in the psalms John 11:53 - put John 11:57 - had Romans 12:12 - continuing Colossians 4:2 - Continue
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For my love they are my adversaries,.... For the love that Christ showed to the Jews; to their bodies, in going about and healing all manner of diseases among them; to their souls, in preaching, the Gospel to them in each of their cities; and for the love he showed to mankind in coming into the world to save them, which should have commanded love again; but instead of this they became his implacable adversaries: they acted the part of Satan; they were as so many Satans to him, as the word signifies.
But I give myself unto prayer; or "I am a man of prayer" y; as Aben Ezra and Kimchi supply it; so he was in the days of his flesh, Hebrews 5:7, he was constant at it, and fervent in it; sometimes a whole night together at it: his usual method was, when at Jerusalem, to teach in the temple in the daytime, and at night to go to the mount of Olives, and there abide and pray, Luke 6:12. This was the armour he alone made use of against his enemies, when they fought against him, and acted the part of an adversary to him; he betook himself to nothing else but prayer; he did not return railing for railing, but committed himself in prayer to God, who judgeth righteously, 1 Peter 2:23, yea, he prayed for those his adversaries: and so Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it, that he was a man of prayer for them, and prayed for them; as it is certain Christ did, when he was encompassed by his enemies, and they were venting all their spite and malice against him, Luke 23:34.
y ואני תפלה "et ego vir orationis", Pagninus, Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For my love ... - As a recompence for my love; or, this is the return which I get for all the expressions of my love to them. The enemies referred to were those whom he had treated kindly; to whom he had done good. This is not uncommon in the world. It was illustrated in an eminent degree in the life of the Saviour.
But I give myself unto prayer - literally, “I - prayer;” that is, I am all prayer; I continually pray. This may mean, either, that he bore these trials with a meek spirit, and did not allow these things to disturb his devotions; or, more probably, that he prayed constantly “for them;” he desired their good, and sought it from above.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 109:4. For my love they are my adversaries — In their behalf I have performed many acts of kindness, and they are my adversaries notwithstanding; this shows principles the most vicious, and hearts the most corrupt. Many of the fathers and commentators have understood the principal part of the things spoken here as referring to our Lord, and the treatment he received from the Jews; and whatever the original intention was, they may safely be applied to this case, as the Psalms 109:2, Psalms 109:3, Psalms 109:4, and Psalms 109:5 verses are as highly illustrative of the conduct of the Jewish rulers towards our Lord as the following verses are of the conduct of Judas; but allowing these passages to be prophetic, it is the Jewish state rather than an individual, against which these awful denunciations are made, as it seems to be represented here under the person and character of an extremely hardened and wicked man; unless we consider the curses to be those of David's enemies. Psalms 109:20.
But I give myself unto prayer — ואני תפלה vaani thephillah; "And I prayer." The Chaldee: ואנא אצלי vaana atsalley, "but I pray." This gives a good sense, which is followed by the Vulgate, Septuagint, AEthiopic, Arabic, and Anglo-Saxon. The Syriac, "I will pray for them." This, not so correctly; as dreadful imprecations, not prayers, follow. But probably the whole ought to be interpreted according to the mode laid down, Psalms 109:20. The translation and paraphrase in the old Psalter are very simple: -
Trans. For that thyng that thai sulde hafe lufed me, thai bakbited me; bot I prayed.
Par. That is, that sulde haf lufed me for I was godson, and thai bakbited me sayande, in Belzebub he castes oute fendes; bot I prayed for thaim.
