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Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Psalms 69:23

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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See also Psalms 69:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A prayer that blindness and paralysis may fall upon the Psalmist's enemies....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEIR EYES. — The darkened eyes and trembling limbs (comp. Nahum 2:10; Daniel 5:6) are expressive of terror and dismay....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 69:24]_ תֶּחְשַׁ֣כְנָה עֵ֭ינֵיהֶם מֵ רְאֹ֑ות וּ֝...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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)....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _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.’...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PLEA FOR VENGEANCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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;...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 69:23 eyes H5869 darkened H2821 (H8799) see H7200 (H8800) loins H4975 shake H4571 (H8685) continually...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 3:14; Acts 28:26; Acts 28:27; Daniel 5:6; Deuter

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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