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Psalms 109:25

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Psalms 109:25

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

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This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.

They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

The fulfillment reading takes Psalm 109:25's image of accusers shaking their heads in scorn as anticipating the mockery of the crucified Jesus reflected in Matthew 27:39. Read alongside other lament psalms of derision, the convergence of multiple passages on this same detail is understood to strengthen the portrait of a rejected, humiliated sufferer through cumulative attestation. On this view the recurring motif reflects a coordinated prophetic pattern culminating at the cross rather than coincidence.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading identifies head-shaking scorn as a stock motif of the individual-lament genre, recurring across the Psalter and wider Hebrew Bible (e.g., Psalm 22:7; Lamentations 2:15; Job 16:4) to describe the universal experience of public humiliation. On this view Psalm 109:25 voices the psalmist's present distress rather than a prediction, and Matthew's crucifixion scene draws on a conventional image of mockery rather than fulfilling this specific verse. Counting each occurrence of the motif as a separate prophecy turns one genre convention into several distinct prophecies without adding predictive content, especially where the same NT verse is paired with several different psalms.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • Matthew 27:39 Echo

    Matthew 27:39 shares the head-shaking motif but uses no citation formula and is more directly tied to Psalm 22:7; for Psalm 109:25 the overlap is an unattributed verbal echo.