Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 102:8

Albert Barnes Commentary

Psalms 102:8

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Psalms 102:8

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me." — Psalms 102:8 (ASV)

Mine enemies reproach me all the day - Continually. They reproach me as one of your people; or, I bear reproaches in common with others, and it becomes a personal matter for me, so entirely are my feelings and interests identified with those of your people. Perhaps there were also, mingled with this, personal reproaches and slanders.

And they that are mad against me - Angry; excited even to madness.

Are sworn against me - literally, “swear by me,” or against me. The meaning is that they have conspired together under the solemnity of an oath to do me harm. It is not the wrath of an individual that I am to meet, but the combined wrath of those who act under the solemnities of an oath. .