Messianic

Psalm 109:6-19

David · ~1000 BC · Status: Fulfilled · Confidence: 65%
“Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.”
King James Version · the opening — all 14 verses are below
More of Psalm 109 on this sitePsalm 109:8

An imprecatory prayer against the betrayer, interpreted as fulfilled in Judas Iscariot and Satan entering him.

Read the whole passage — all 14 verses (KJV)

109:6Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

109:7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

109:8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

109:9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

109:10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

109:11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

109:12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

109:13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

109:15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

109:16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

109:17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

109:18As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

109:19Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

Fulfillment References

Acts 1:20 John 13:27 Matthew 27:3-5

How Traditions Read This Prophecy

Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalThis imprecatory psalm pronounces judgment on a treacherous betrayer — 'let his days be few; and let another take his office' (v. 8). Peter applies it directly to Judas: his place was left empty and another (Matthias) took his office (Acts 1:20). The righteous one betrayed and falsely accused foreshadows the Lord Jesus, God in flesh, betrayed by one of His own — and the Scripture was fulfilled to the letter.
JewishAn imprecatory psalm calling for divine justice on a wicked, ungrateful accuser; the psalmist commits his cause to God against slanderers.
CatholicRead of Christ's betrayer; Acts 1:20 applies v. 8 to Judas and the replacement of his apostolic office.
ProtestantA messianic-imprecatory psalm; Peter cites v. 8 of Judas (Acts 1:20), the Sufferer a type of Christ enduring false accusation.
AcademicAn imprecatory individual lament; Acts 1:20 lifts v. 8 and applies it to Judas's replacement — a notable example of early Christian pesher.
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