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Psalms 109:7
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5 Thus athey have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love. 
6 Set a wicked man over him,
And let aan accuser stand at his right hand. 
7 When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
And alet his prayer become sin. 
8 Let his days be afew,
And blet another take his office. 
9 aLet his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow. 
10 Let his children1 continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them1 seek their bread also from their desolate places. 
11 aLet the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder his labor. 
12 Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
13 aLet his1 posterity be cut off,
And in the generation following let their bname be blotted out. 
14 aLet the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
And let not the sin of his mother bbe blotted out. 
15 Let them be continually before the Lord,
That He may acut off the memory of them from the earth; 
16 Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
That he might even slay the abroken in heart. 
17 aAs he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. 
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Psalms 109:7

When he shall be judged ... - When for his offences he shall be arraigned. The psalmist supposes that he "might" be put on trial; he seems to suppose that this "would be." Such wickedness could not always escape detection, and sooner or later he would be arrested and brought to trial. "When" this should occur, the psalmist prays that justice might be done; that he might be condemned, as he "ought" to be. Such a prayer could not in itself be wrong, for assuredly it cannot be proper for magistrates to pray that the wicked man may escape, or that they may themselves fail in the very object for which they are appointed. See the General Introduction, 6 (5) e. f.

And let his prayer become sin - Evidently his prayer in reference to his "trial" for crime; his prayer that he might be acquitted and discharged. Let it be seen in the result that such a prayer was wrong; that it was, in fact, a prayer for the discharge of a bad man - a man who ought to be punished. Let it be seen to be what a prayer would be if offered for a murderer, or violator of the law - a prayer that he might escape or not be punished. All must see that such a prayer would be wrong, or would be a "sin;" and so, in his own case, it would be equally true that a prayer "for his own escape" would be "sin." The psalmist asks that, by the result of the trial, such a prayer might be "seen" to be in fact a prayer "for the" protection and escape of a "bad man." A just sentence in the case would demonstrate this; and this is what the psalmist prays for.


 
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