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Psalm 109

Psa. 109:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Let this be the reward
p`ullah (Hebrew #6468)
(abstractly) work
KJV usage: labour, reward, wages, work.
Pronounce: peh-ool-law'
Origin: feminine passive participle of 6466
of mine adversaries
satan (Hebrew #7853)
to attack, (figuratively) accuse
KJV usage: (be an) adversary, resist.
Pronounce: saw-tan'
Origin: a primitive root
from the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and of them that speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
against my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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Soul; Spirit

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Let this.
Psa. 2:5‑6,12• 5Then he speaketh unto them in his anger,{HR}And in his wrath he confoundeth them:
 6"Yet have I anointed my king upon Zion{HR}The mountain of my holiness."
 12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and ye perish in the way{HR}When his anger consumeth but a little:{HR}Blessed [are] all who trust in him. (Psa. 2:5‑6,12)
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Psa. 21:8‑12• 8Thy hand shall find out all thine enemies,{HR}Thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
 9Thou wilt make them as a furnace of fire at the time of thy presence;{HR}Jehovah in his anger will consume them, and fire shall devour them.
 10Thou wilt destroy their fruit from the earth{HR}And their seed from among the sons of men.
 11For they stretched out evil over thee,{HR}They have devised a wicked device; they are not able.
 12For thou makest them to turn their back,{HR}When thou preparest thy strings against their face. (Psa. 21:8‑12)
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Psa. 40:14‑15• 14They shall be ashamed and confounded together that seek my soul to destroy it;{HR}Driven back and disgraced shall they be that wish my hurt.
 15They shall be desolate as a reward for their shame{HR}That say to me, Aha, aha. (Psa. 40:14‑15)
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Psa. 110:1,5‑6• 1A psalm of David.{HR}Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand{HR}Until I make thine enemies a stool for thy feet.
 5The Lord at thy right hand hath smitten kings in the day of his anger.
 6He shall judge among the nations;{HR}He hath filled with corpses,{HR}He hath smitten the head over a great country. (Psa. 110:1,5‑6)
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2 Sam. 17:23• 23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. (2 Sam. 17:23)
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2 Sam. 18:32• 32And the king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And the Cushite said, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee for evil, be as that young man. (2 Sam. 18:32)
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1 Kings 2:44• 44And the king said to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness of which thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David my father; and Jehovah returns thy wickedness upon thine own head; (1 Kings 2:44)
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Luke 19:27• 27Moreover, those mine enemies who would not [have] me to reign over them, bring them here and slay [them] before me. (Luke 19:27)
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1 Thess. 2:15‑16• 15who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and please not God, and [are] contrary to all men,
 16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins alway; but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. (1 Thess. 2:15‑16)
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Matt. 11:19• 19The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a man [that is] eating and wine-drinking, a friend of tax-gatherers, and of sinners: —and wisdom has been justified by her children. (Matt. 11:19)
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Matt. 12:24• 24But when the Pharisees heard, they said, This [man] doth not cast out the demons but by Beelzebub, prince of the demons. (Matt. 12:24)
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Matt. 26:66‑67• 66What think ye? And they answering said, He is liable to the penalty of death.
 67Then they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and some struck him with the palms of their hand, (Matt. 26:66‑67)
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Mark 9:39• 39But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no one who shall do a miracle in my name, and be able soon [after] to speak evil of me. (Mark 9:39)
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1 Cor. 12:3• 3Wherefore I give you to know, that no one speaking in [the] Spirit of God saith, Jesus [is] accursed, and no one can say, Lord Jesus, unless in [the] Holy Spirit. (1 Cor. 12:3)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Let this be the rewarda of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "the [work] wrought"; "wages," Lev. 19.13.

W. Kelly Translation

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This [is] the wages of mine adversaries from Jehovah,{HR}And of their speaking evil against my soul.