That they may know that this is thy hand,.... Which inflicted vengeance, and executed judgments on Judas and the Jews, as before imprecated: so the Targum,"that they may know that this is thy stroke;''or which was concerned in all the sorrows and sufferings of the Messiah, which could never have come upon him had it not been the will of God; it was his hand and council that determined it, or men could never have effected it; see Ac 4:28, or which wrought deliverance and salvation as before prayed for; see Ps 118:21.
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Psalms 109:27
Psalms 109:27
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