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LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE BEFORE THEM - These verses are quoted
by Paul Romans 11:9 as descriptive of the character of persons in his
time, or as “language” which would express what he desired to...
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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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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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Let the eyes which gloated over another's misfortunes be blinded: let
the limbs which are the seat of the strength they have abused be
palsied....
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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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_LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED, THAT THEY SEE NOT; AND MAKE THEIR LOINS
CONTINUALLY TO SHAKE._
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not - just retribution,
seeing that they would not see, but loved...
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A prayer that blindness and paralysis may fall upon the Psalmist's
enemies....
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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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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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THEIR EYES. — The darkened eyes and trembling limbs (comp. Nahum
2:10; Daniel 5:6) are expressive of terror and dismay....
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_[Psalms 69:24]_ תֶּחְשַׁ֣כְנָה עֵ֭ינֵיהֶם
מֵ רְאֹ֑ות וּ֝...
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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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Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their (s)
loins continually to shake.
(s) Take both judgment and power from them, (Acts 1:20)....
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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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_MISUSED PRIVILEGES AN OCCASION OF FALLING_
‘Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withal: and let
the things that should have been for their wealth be unto them an
occasion of falling.’...
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23._Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. _The Psalmist
here refers chiefly to two powers of the body, those of _the eyes _and
of _the loins; _and I have no hesitation in considering his...
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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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LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED, THAT THEY SEE NOT,.... Not literally, the
eyes of their bodies; but figuratively, the eyes of their
understanding; which were so darkened, and they given up to such
judicia...
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Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins
continually to shake.
Ver. 23. _Let their eyes be darkened_] Let them be infatuated and
besotted, that they may go hoodwinked to he...
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_Let their eyes_, &c. _Their eyes shall be darkened_ Not the eyes of
their bodies, (for, in that sense, the prediction was neither
accomplished in David's nor in Christ's enemies,) but of their minds,...
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Let their eyes be darkened, in spiritual blindness, THAT THEY SEE NOT,
AND MAKE THEIR LOINS, commonly regarded as the seat of strength,
CONTINUALLY TO SHAKE, in terror, dismay, and feebleness....
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PLEA FOR VENGEANCE...
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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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THEIR EYES; not the eyes of their bodies, (for so this was not
accomplished in David's nor in Christ's enemies,) but of their minds,
that they may not discern God's truth, nor their own duty, nor the...
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Psalms 69:23 eyes H5869 darkened H2821 (H8799) see H7200 (H8800) loins
H4975 shake H4571 (H8685) continually...
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Psalms 69:23
We are familiar with the comments that are often made on inspired
words like these. "What a spirit," men say, "is here! How unlike the
mild, tender, charitable spirit of our Master, Chris...
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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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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 69:22 In Romans 11:9, Paul cites this curse to
explain why his fellow Jews who reject the message of Christ have been
hardened. He also explains why the curse is not final: it is...
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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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Eyes — Not the eyes of their bodies, but of their minds: as they
that shut their eyes and will not see, so they shall be judicially
blinded. To shake — To take away their strength....