The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 109:31

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor. God will always come to the assistance of the poor and needy, when unrighteous men oppress them, and will give them help and deliverance. To save him from those that condemn his soul. The salvation is not always from the death of the body, or there could have been no martyrs; but in all cases it is a deliverance of the soul.

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