Psalms 69:1
Waters — Tribulations.... [ Continue Reading ]
Waters — Tribulations.... [ Continue Reading ]
I restored — For peace sake.... [ Continue Reading ]
My sins — But O Lord, although I have been innocent to mine enemies, I am guilty of many sins and follies against thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
For my sake — Because of my sad disappointments. For if they see me forsaken, they will be discouraged by this example.... [ Continue Reading ]
For thy sake — For my obedience to thy commands, and zeal for thy glory.... [ Continue Reading ]
Zeal — That fervent love which I have for thy house and service, and glory, and people. Eaten — Exhausted my spirits. Upon me — I have been as deeply affected with thy reproaches, as with mine own. This tho' truly belonging to David, yet was also directed by the spirit of God in him, to represent th... [ Continue Reading ]
Wept — For their impiety. Reproach — They derided me for it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverb — A proverb of reproach.... [ Continue Reading ]
That sit — Vain and idle persons, that spend their time in the gates and markets.... [ Continue Reading ]
In the truth — Or, According to thy saving truth, or faithfulness; grant me that salvation, which thou hast graciously promised.... [ Continue Reading ]
Gall — Instead of giving me that comfort which my condition required, they added to my afflictions. Vinegar — These things were metaphorically fulfilled in David, but properly in Christ, the description of whose sufferings was principally intended here by the Holy Ghost.... [ Continue Reading ]
Their table — And this punishment in their table, exactly answers their sin, in giving Christ gall for his meat, Psalms 69:21. A snare — Their table or meat, which is set before them, shall become a snare: the occasion of their destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
For — Which is an act of barbarous cruelty. Talk — Reproaching them, and triumphing in their calamities.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wilt add — Give them up to their own lusts. Not let them — Partake of thy righteousness, or of thy mercy and goodness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Living — Of eternal life.... [ Continue Reading ]
On high — Out of the reach of mine enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
This — This hearty sacrifice of praise, is more grateful to God, than the most glorious legal sacrifices. Hath horns — That is both tender and mature, as it is when the horns bud forth, and the hoofs grow hard.... [ Continue Reading ]
The humble — Those pious persons who are grieved for their calamities, will heartily rejoice in my deliverance. Live — Or, be revived, which were dejected, and in a manner dead with sorrow.... [ Continue Reading ]
Prisoners — Those who are in prison or affliction for his sake.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sion — His church and people. They — His servants, as is explained in the following verse. There — In the literal Canaan for a long time, in the heavenly Canaan for ever.... [ Continue Reading ]