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Psalm 109

Psa. 109:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Set
paqad (Hebrew #6485)
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
KJV usage: appoint, X at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, X by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, X surely, visit, want.
Pronounce: paw-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
thou a wicked man
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
over him: and let ζSatan
satan (Hebrew #7854)
an opponent; especially (with the article prefixed) Satan, the arch-enemy of good
KJV usage: adversary, Satan, withstand.
Pronounce: saw-tawn'
Origin: from 7853
stand
`amad (Hebrew #5975)
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, + serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-)stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.
Pronounce: aw-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
at his right hand
yamiyn (Hebrew #3225)
the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south
KJV usage: + left-handed, right (hand, side), south.
Pronounce: yaw-meen'
Origin: from 3231
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or, an adversary,
Zech. 3:1• 1And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. (Zech. 3:1)
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Ministry on This Verse

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Set thou.Dr. Sykes, Michaelis, and others, contend that these imprecations are those of David's enemies against himself; and they would render, "Set, say they, a wicked," etc:
but this is rendered highly improbable by the 8th verse being applied by St. Peter to the traitor Judas, of whom David was certainly not a type.
(See ver. 20.)
Bp. Horsley and others, however, render the verbs in the future tense, the first verb alone being in the imperative; justly considering the Psalmist as merely uttering prophetic denunciations of God's displeasure against sinners.
Matt. 27:4• 4saying, I have sinned in having delivered up guiltless blood. But they said, What is that to us? see *thou* to that. (Matt. 27:4)
and let.
Zech. 3:1• 1And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. (Zech. 3:1)
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John 13:2,27• 2And during supper, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon, Iscariote, that he should deliver him up,
 27And, after the morsel, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore says to him, What thou doest, do quickly. (John 13:2,27)
Satan.
or, an adversary.
Matt. 5:25• 25Make friends with thine adverse party quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him; lest some time the adverse party deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. (Matt. 5:25)
• (vv. 6-20) The verses that follow present the call for judgment on the adversaries of Christ. (“Psalms 109” by H. Smith)
• Judas is marked out as a representative of the unbelieving nation of Jews who rejected Christ at His first coming. This hatred calls for the most dreadful invocation of judgment of all the imprecatory psalms (see list in footnote on Psalm 5). Those who follow him in rejecting Christ as the apostate Jews who follow Antichrist will do, are morally his family (“wife and children”) and consequently share in his judgment (vs. 6-20). (“Book 5.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Set a wicked man over him, and let the adversarye stand at his right hand;

JND Translation Notes

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"Satan," as 1 Chron. 21.1, without the article. The same word, as verb or participle, is in vers. 4,20,29, and Ps. 38.20; 71.13.