Proverbia 109:20

Nova Vulgata

Haec retributio eorum, qui adversantur mihi apud Dominum, et qui loquuntur mala adversus animam meam.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
span data-lang="lat" data-trans="jvl" data-ref="psa.109.1" class="versetxt"> Psalmus David. [Dixit Dominus Domino meo:
Sede a dextris meis,
donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum.
Virgam virtutis tuæ emittet Dominus ex Sion:
dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum.
Tecum principium in die virtutis tuæ
in splendoribus sanctorum:
ex utero, ante luciferum, genui te.
Juravit Dominus, et non pœnitebit eum:
Tu es sacerdos in æternum
secundum ordinem Melchisedech.
Dominus a dextris tuis;
confregit in die iræ suæ reges.
Judicabit in nationibus, implebit ruinas;
conquassabit capita in terra multorum.
De torrente in via bibet;
propterea exaltabit caput.]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let this: Psalms 2:5, Psalms 2:6, Psalms 2:12, Psalms 21:8-12, Psalms 40:14, Psalms 40:15, Psalms 110:1, Psalms 110:5, Psalms 110:6, 2 Samuel 17:23, 2 Samuel 18:32, 1 Kings 2:44, Luke 19:27, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

them: Matthew 11:19, Matthew 12:24, Matthew 26:66, Matthew 26:67, Mark 9:39, 1 Corinthians 12:3

Reciprocal: Psalms 109:6 - Set thou

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord,.... Who were so many Satans, as the word used signifies; and Judas particularly is called a devil; and of the same malevolent and diabolical disposition were the Jews in general, John 6:70 and what is before imprecated upon them is the just recompence of reward for their hatred to Christ and ill usage of him.

And of them that speak evil against my soul; or "life" f; in order to take it away, as did the false witnesses that rose up against him, and the Jews who charged him with sedition and blasphemy.

f על נפשי "contra vitam meam", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord,... - The word rendered “reward” means usually work, labor, occupation, business; then, what one earns by his work - reward, recompence, Leviticus 19:13. The meaning here is, Let them constantly receive these things which I have prayed for Psalms 109:6-19; let them be constantly treated in this manner. This is a summing up of his entire wish - his whole desire. It cannot be proved that they did “not deserve” all this; it cannot be shown that if all this came upon them at the hand of God, it would be unjust; it cannot be denied that such things as these, either singly, in groups, or in succession, do actually come upon wicked people; and the prayer in the case “may” have been merely that justice might be done. Still, as before remarked, it is not easy wholly to vindicate the expressed feelings of the psalmist. See the notes at Psalms 109:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 109:20. Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul. — Following the mode of interpretation already adopted, this may mean: All these maledictions shall be fulfilled on my enemies; they shall have them for their reward. So all the opposition made by the Jews against our Lord, and the obloquies and execrations wherewith they have loaded him and his religion, have fallen upon themselves; and they are awful examples of the wrath of God abiding on them that believe not.

But is not this verse a key to all that preceded it? The original, fairly interpreted, will lead us to a somewhat different meaning: זאת פעלת שטני מאת יהוה והדברים רע על נפשי zoth peullath soteney meeth Yehovah, vehaddoberim ra al naphshi. "This is the work of my adversaries before the Lord, and of those who speak evil against my soul," or life. That is, all that is said from the sixth to the twentieth verse consists of the evil words and imprecations of my enemies against my soul, laboring to set the Lord, by imprecations, against me, that their curses may take effect. This, which is a reasonable interpretation, frees the whole Psalm from every difficulty. Surely, the curses contained in it are more like those which proceed from the mouth of the wicked, than from one inspired by the Spirit of the living God. Taking the words in this sense, which I am persuaded is the best, and which the original will well bear and several of the Versions countenance, then our translation may stand just as it is, only let the reader remember that at the sixth verse David begins to tell how his enemies cursed HIM, while he prayed for THEM.