Psalms 109:4
My love they requite with hostility, while for them I lift up my prayer.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
In Context
3they beset me with words of hatred, and fight without cause against me.
5Evil for good they reward me, and hatred for my love.
Cross References
Psalms 35:7For they wantonly hid their net for me, and dug a pit to destroy me.
Psalms 38:20who render me evil for good, and oppose me, because I make good my goal.
Psalms 69:12Those who sit in the gate make sport of me in the music of drunken songs.
Luke 23:34Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing.” His clothes they divided among them by casting lots.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 109:2-6
Appeal to God Against Enemies. 1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. 4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. It is the unspeakable comfort of all good people that, whoever is against them, God… Read the whole commentary →