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Verse Psalms 69:7. _FOR THY SAKE I HAVE BORNE REPROACH_] The Gentiles
have said, "Why such an obstinate attachment to the _worship_ of a
Being who treats you so rigorously, and who interests not himse...
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BECAUSE FOR THY SAKE I HAVE BORNE REPROACH - In thy cause; in defense
of thy truth; because I have professed to be a friend of God. The true
reason why these calamities have come upon me is that I hav...
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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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So Jeremiah pleads, "Know that for thy sake I bear reproach" (Jeremiah
15:15). _shame_&c. cp. Psalms 44:15....
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Such discouragement must be the inevitable consequence if he is
abandoned, for it is for God's sake that he is persecuted and defamed.
Comp. the plea of the nation in Psalms 44:14 ff....
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FOR THY SAKE— i.e. "Merely because I adhere to thee, and will use no
unlawful means to right myself." See 1 Samuel 24:10; 1 Samuel 24:22....
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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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_O GOD, THOU KNOWEST MY FOOLISHNESS; AND MY SINS ARE NOT HID FROM
THEE._
-He appeals in support of his prayer to God's knowledge that he
suffers reproach and estrangement, as if he were foolish and s...
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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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Cp. Jeremiah 15:15....
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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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BECAUSE. — Better, _for._
FOR THY SAKE. — It is plain from Psalms 69:9 that these words can
only mean that the reproach under which the psalmist (or the community
of which he was the spokesman) labou...
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_[Psalms 69:8]_ כִּֽי ־עָ֭לֶיךָ נָשָׂ֣אתִי
חֶרְפָּ֑ה כִּסְּתָ֖ה...
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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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A CRY OUT OF DEEP WATERS
Psalms 69:1
This psalm and the Psalms 22:1 are quoted most often in the New
Testament as referring to our Lord. Psalms 69:1 is very sad.
Throughout we detect a heart-break. T...
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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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Reader! is not this a sweet prayer of Jesus, that none of his redeemed
may ever take shame at his cross, but rather glory in it? And observe
how the cause of the Father is pointed at in all that belon...
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7_For on thy account I have suffered reproach _He now expresses more
distinctly what he had stated ironically in the fifth verse, where he
asserts that his faults were not hidden from God. Nay, he pro...
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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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BECAUSE FOR THY SAKE I HAVE BORNE REPROACH,.... Being reckoned a
sinner, called a deceiver, said to be a Samaritan, and to have a
devil; with many other reproaches, which he bore patiently for the
sak...
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Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my
face.
Ver. 7. _Because for thy sake I have borne reproach_] Whatever mine
enemies pretend, they strike at thee, Lord, through my side...
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_Because for thy sake_ For my trust in thy promises, obedience to thy
commands, and zeal for thy glory; “because I adhere to thee, and
will use no unlawful means to right myself;” _I have borne reproa...
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THE MESSIAH'S VICARIOUS SUFFERING.
To the chief musician, for use in the public assembly of the
congregation, upon Shoshannim, to be sung to the melody "On the
Lilies. " The psalm is referred to seven...
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Because for Thy sake, by God's predetermined foreknowledge and
counsel, I HAVE BORNE REPROACH, Isaiah 53:4; SHAME HATH COVERED MY
FACE, the full disgrace of the guilt of all mankind....
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1-12 We should frequently consider the person of the Sufferer here
spoken of, and ask why, as well as what he suffered, that, meditating
thereon, we may be more humbled for sin, and more convinced of...
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FOR THY SAKE; for my trust in thy promise, and obedience to thy
commands, and zeal for thy glory, and against all wickedness; all
which they turn into matter of derision and reproach. MY FACE; in
whic...
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Psalms 69:7 borne H5375 (H8804) reproach H2781 Shame H3639 covered
H3680 (H8765) face H6440
Because -...
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We shall read together at this time a part of the 69 th Psalm, and
afterwards two passages in the New Testament. Although there is no
doubt that this Psalm is intended to describe a very large class o...
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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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_For Thy sake I have borne reproach._
SUFFERING TORTURE FOR CHRIST’S SAKE
An echo of the Boxer risings in China was heard in the address of Dr.
Whitfield Guinness. In July, 1900, the little party wit...
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_Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul._
HUMAN SUFFERING
I. Man’s sufferings are sometimes overwhelmingly great. This shows--
1. The abnormal state of man. Was man made to suffer...
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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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THE PSALM OF THE TRESPASS OFFERING
Psalms 69:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The 69th Psalm, which we are to study today, is one of those great
Calvary Psalms which stir our souls. Like other Psalms there are...
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For thy sake — For my obedience to thy commands, and zeal for thy
glory....