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Bible study · Psalm 109:1-31

Psalm 109: At the right hand of the needy

Read Psalm 109:1-31 before you meet.

In a few lines

Psalm 109's hardest lines sit inside a prayer: "but I am in prayer" (109:4). It asks for an adversary to stand at a man's right hand (109:6), and ends with the LORD, who "will stand at the right hand of the needy" (109:31), in the same Hebrew words. And Peter quotes its "Let another take his office" (Acts 1:20).

The verse to carry

“Help me, LORD, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;”

Psalm 109:26

To talk about

  1. 1. "In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer" (109:4). When love is repaid with harm, what would it look like for you to be "in prayer"?

  2. 2. The psalmist asks for help "that they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it" (109:27). Why might it matter to him that his help is seen to come from the LORD?

  3. 3. "For he will stand at the right hand of the needy" (109:31). Where do you most need to know this week that the LORD stands beside you?

Prayer requests