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FOR THEY PERSECUTE HIM WHOM THOU HAST SMITTEN - That is, instead of
pitying one who is afflicted of God, or showing compassion for him,
they “add” to his sorrows by their own persecutions. The psalmis...
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PSALM 69-72
Psalms 69
The Suffering and Rejected Christ
_ 1. Hated without a cause (Psalms 69:1)_
2. Bearing reproach (Psalms 69:7)
3. His own prayer ...
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LXIX. A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE AND REVENGE. The author was a pious
Jew, burning with zeal for the purity of the Temple worship (Psalms
69:9). He was a representative man, so that the reproaches of tho...
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THOSE WHOM THOU HAST WOUNDED. Thy wounded ones....
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_For they persecute_&c. They had no commission to aggravate the
sufferings of one who was already smitten with the rod of chastisement
by God Himself. We think of Job and his friends (Job 19:21-22), a...
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At the thought of the intolerable inhumanity of his enemies he can no
longer restrain himself, and breaks out into fierce imprecation. Some
commentators, feeling the difficulty of such imprecations pr...
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AND THEY TALK TO THE GRIEF— _And they add to the pain._ See Bishop
Hare, and the LXX....
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PSALMS 69
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Pictures of Distress and Outcries for Deliverance, followed by
Imprecations on Cruel Enemies, and by Promises of Praise.
ANALYSIS
This psalm is almost certainly Composit...
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_FOR THEY PERSECUTE HIM WHOM THOU HAST SMITTEN; AND THEY TALK TO THE
GRIEF OF THOSE WHOM THOU HAST WOUNDED._
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten ... they talk to the
grief of those whom tho...
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69:26 for (e-12) Or 'talk of.'...
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This whole Ps. should be compared with Psalms 22:31, 35, 38,, 40. It
is the prayer of one who is in deep distress, wrongfully persecuted by
enemies, and conscious that, though he is sinful, his suffer...
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TALK TO THE GRIEF] RV 'tell of the sorrow.' LXX 'add to the sorrow.'...
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PSALMS 42:72
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are from the Bible.
Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end.
The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
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THEY TALK... — Better, _and respecting the pain of thy pierced ones,
they talk._ (For the construction of this verb _talk,_ see Psalms
2:7.) We naturally think of Isaiah 53:4, and of the Cross....
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_[Psalms 69:27]_ כִּֽי ־אַתָּ֣ה אֲשֶׁר
־הִכִּ֣יתָ רָדָ֑פוּ...
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Psalms 69:1
THE Davidic authorship of this psalm is evidently untenable, if for no
other reason, yet because of the state of things presupposed in Psalms
69:35. The supposition that Jeremiah was the a...
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“JEHOVAH HEARETH THE NEEDY”
Psalms 69:18
In Psalms 69:19 the psalmist again spreads out his griefs before God.
He had looked for pity, but his foes only aggravated his sufferings.
Both Matthew and Jo...
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Perhaps in no psalm in the whole psalter is the sense of sorrow
profounder or more intense than in this. The soul of the singer pours
itself out in unrestrained abandonment to the overwhelming and
ter...
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We may accept these verses as so many expressions of prophecy, which
were literally fulfilled, as our Lord elsewhere predicted, in the
siege and overthrow of Jerusalem, about forty years after the
asc...
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26._For they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten. _He brings
forward the crime with which they were chargeable, to make it manifest
that they richly deserved such dreadful punishments. Some exp...
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Psalms 69. The state of soul of which this most important psalm is the
expression demands the utmost attention and patient inquiry. We have
all along seen the remnant of Israel before us, or Christ as...
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FOR THEY PERSECUTE [HIM] WHOM THOU HAST SMITTEN,.... Meaning the
Messiah, who was not only smitten and scourged by men, but was
stricken and smitten of God; according to his determinate counsel and
fo...
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For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the
grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Ver. 26. _For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten_] Christ was
"stricken, smitten of...
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_For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten_ Christ was he whom God
had _smitten_, for it pleased the Lord to _bruise him_, and he was
esteemed _stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted, Isaiah 53:4...
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THOSE WHOM THOU HAST WOUNDED:
_ Heb._ thy wounded...
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22-29 These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's
persecutors. Verses Psalms 69:22; Psalms 69:23, are applied to the
judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews, in Romans 11:9;...
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SMITTEN; which is an act of barbarous cruelty and inhuman malice. They
talk; reproaching them with and insulting and triumphing in their
calamities....
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Psalms 69:26 persecute H7291 (H8804) struck H5221 (H8689) talk H5608
(H8762) grief H4341 wounded H2491...
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CONTENTS: David complains of great distress and begs God to succor
him.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: When the waters of affliction rise about us, the only
course is to commit the keeping of o...
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The Chaldee paraphrase ascribes this psalm to David, and with great
care regards it as highly prophetic of the Messiah. St. Paul therefore
knew the high authority he had, in quoting it against the Jew...
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_But as for me, my prayer is unto Thee, O Lord, in an acceptable
time._
THE COMPASSIONABLE, COMMENDABLE, AND CENSURABLE
I. The compassionable. The representation which the author here gives
of his s...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 69:1. This is an individual lament. A
faithful Israelite is suffering for wrongs he has done (v. Psalms
69:5). Attackers take advantage of his
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_.—“To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, a Psalm
of David.”
“_To the chief musician_.” See the introduction to Psalms 57.
“_Upon Shoshannim_. See the introduction to Psa...
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EXPOSITION
THIS is the cry of one suffering severely from men, partly on account
of his own sins (Psalms 69:5), but mainly for the sake of God (Psalms
69:7). It is said to be "written in the style of...
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The sixty-ninth psalm is a Messianic psalm. That is, it is a psalm of
prophecy concerning Jesus Christ. And there are many scriptures within
the psalm here that make reference to Jesus Christ.
Save me...
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1 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Chronicles 28:9; Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 53:4;...
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For — Which is an act of barbarous cruelty. Talk — Reproaching
them, and triumphing in their calamities....