Psalm 109:5
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New International Version (©2011)
They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They repay evil for good, and hatred for my love.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Thus they have repaid me evil for good And hatred for my love.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They devise evil against me instead of good, and hatred in place of my love.

NET Bible (©2006)
They repay me evil for good, and hate for love.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
They paid me evil for good and hatred for love.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They reward me with evil instead of good and with hatred instead of love.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

American King James Version
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

American Standard Version
And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.

Darby Bible Translation
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

English Revised Version
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

World English Bible
They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Young's Literal Translation
And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

109:1-5. It is the unspeakable comfort of all believers, that whoever is against them, God is for them; and to him they may apply as to one pleased to concern himself for them. David's enemies laughed at him for his devotion, but they could not laugh him out of it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - And they have rewarded ms evil for good, and hatred for my love; or, "thus they rewarded me." The verse is a corollary from what has gone before, not anything additional.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they have rewarded me evil for good,.... For the good words and sound doctrine he delivered to them; for the good works and miracles he wrought among them, to the healing of them; see John 10:32.

And hatred for my love; he came to seek and save that which was lost, and yet they hated him, and would not have him to rule over them, Luke 19:10.

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God of My Praise, Don't Remain Silent
…4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer. 5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 6Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. …

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.
John 10:32 but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?"
1 Samuel 25:21 David had just said, "It's been useless--all my watching over this fellow's property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.
Psalm 7:4 if I have repaid my ally with evil or without cause have robbed my foe--
Psalm 35:12 They repay me evil for good and leave me like one bereaved.
Psalm 38:20 Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.
Proverbs 17:13 Evil will never leave the house of one who pays back evil for good.
Jeremiah 41:2 Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed as governor over the land.