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.
Comments by Joan Boney
What we have to do is to "give ourselves unto prayer" at this point just as the Psalmist says.
In the NT church, we have people rise up against us and we do what the apostle Peter said to do which is as follows:
I Peter 4 ... 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
If we have done well and suffer as a Christian we commit our soul to God and we pray for God to restore our souls ... and we wait on HIM.
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Continuing Psalm 109
6 Set thou a wicked man over him:
and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned:
and let his prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few;
and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless,
and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg:
let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him:
neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off;
and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord;
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the Lord continually,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy,
but persecuted the poor and needy man,
that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him:
as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As 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.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him,
and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord,
and of them that speak evil against my soul.
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Comments by Joan Boney
Luke 9 ... 51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, 52 And sent messengers before his face:and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. 53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. 56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
In the NT we live under a different covenant from the OT and each of us have the Spirit of Jesus in us, the Holy Spirit. We do not have to call curses down on our enemies, on those people of this world who "wrong" us wrongfully.
God will deal with HIS enemies according to HIS will. While they who oppose us may seem to be our enemies, the one they actually oppose in their words and works is God. Those who love the word of God, loving God, love us.
God will bring justice by HIS wisdom.
Therefore the apostle Paul says ...
Romans 12 ... 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath:for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink:for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
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21 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake:
because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting;
and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them:
when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, O Lord my God:
O save me according to thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand;
that thou, Lord, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou:
when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame,
and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;
yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
to save him from those that condemn his soul.