SEV Biblia, Chapter 109:20
Este sea el pago de parte del SEÑOR de los que me calumnian, y de los que hablan mal contra mi alma.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 108:20
Verse 20. Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil apainst my soul. - Following the mode of interpretation already adopted, this may mean: All these maledictions shall be fulfilled on my enemies; they shall have them for their reward. So all the opposition made by the Jews against our Lord, and the obloquies and execrations wherewith they have loaded him and his religion, have fallen upon themselves; and they are awful examples of the wrath of God abiding on them that believe not. But is not this verse a key to all that preceded it? The original, fairly interpreted, will lead us to a somewhat different meaning: ypn l[ [r µyrbdhw hwhy tam ynf tl[p taz zoth peullath soteney meeth Yehovah, vehaddoberim ra al naphshi. "This is the work of my adversaries before the Lord, and of those who speak evil against my soul," or life.
That is, all that is said from the sixth to the twentieth verse consists of the evil words and imprecations of my enemies against my soul, labouring to set the Lord, by imprecations, against me, that their curses may take effect. This, which is a reasonable interpretation, frees the whole Psalm from every difficulty. Surely, the curses contained in it are more like those which proceed from the mouth of the wicked, than from one inspired by tne Spirit of the living God. Taking the words in this sense, which I am persuaded is the best, and which the original will well bear and several of the Versions countenance, then our translation may stand just as it is, only let the reader remember that at the sixth verse David begins to tell how his enemies cursed HIM, while he prayed for THEM.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-20 - The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on some of his enemies, to warn others. When men reject the salvation of Christ, even their prayers are numbered among their sins. See what hurries some to shameful deaths, and brings the families and estates of others to ruin; makes them and theirs despicable and hateful, an brings poverty, shame, and misery upon their posterity: it is sin, tha mischievous, destructive thing. And what will be the effect of the sentence, "God, ye cursed," upon the bodies and souls of the wicked! Ho it will affect the senses of the body, and the powers of the soul, with pain, anguish, horror, and despair! Think on these things, sinners tremble and repent.
Original Hebrew
זאת 2063 פעלת 6468 שׂטני 7853 מאת 853 יהוה 3068 והדברים 1696 רע 7451 על 5921 נפשׁי׃ 5315
