“For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.”
So they have repaid me evil for good, and hatred for my love. The verse repeats and emphasizes the inversion of moral reciprocity, as evil-for-good and hatred-for-love represent complete reversal of proper social relationship. The double parallelism stresses the magnitude of the injustice. This verse articulates the fundamental injustice: the speaker extends goodwill, only to receive malice.
Church Fathers on Psalms 109:4
1. Every one who faithfully reads the Acts of the Apostles, acknowledges that this Psalm contains a prophecy of Christ; for it evidently appears that what is here written, “let his days be few, and let another take his office,” is prophesied of Judas, the betrayer of Christ....For as some things are said which seem peculiarly to apply to the Apostle Peter, and yet are not clear in their meaning, unless when referred to the Church, whom he is acknowledged to have figuratively…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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