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Psalms 69:25

their habitation Rather, as R.V. marg., their encampment; cp. Genesis 25:16; Numbers 31:10; Ezekiel 25:4 (R.V.). The language is a survival from the habits of nomad life, with which however the Israelites must always have been familiar. Cp. Jeremiah 4:20; Jeremiah 10:20. To the Oriental no prospect was more terrible than that of the complete extermination of his family. Cp. Job 18:19; Proverbs 14:11.

The quotation in Acts 1:20 is a free adaptation of the LXX.

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See also Psalms 69:25 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LET THEIR HABITATION BE DESOLATE - Margin, “their palace.” The Hebrew word means properly a wall; then, a fortress or castle; and then it means also a nomadic encampment, a rustic village, a farm-haml...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LET, &C. Quoted in Acts 1:20. HABITATION. palace:. place surrounded by. wall. Occurs only here in Psalms....

  • 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 HABITATION BE DESOLATE; AND LET NONE DWELL IN THEIR TENTS._ Let their habitation be desolate. Their temple was no longer to be the temple of the Lord, but their own habitation. So Christ q...

  • 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

    This v. is quoted freely (from LXX) in Acts 1:20....

  • 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

    HABITATION. — The derivation is from a word meaning _circle,_ and a better rendering is therefore _encampment_ or _village._ Nomadic tribes pitch their tents in an enclosed ring. The derivation of the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 69:26]_ תְּהִי ־טִֽירָתָ֥ם נְשַׁמָּ֑ה בְּ֝ אָהֳלֵיהֶ֗ם...

  • 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 (t) habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents. (t) Punish not only them, but their posterity, who will be like them....

  • 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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    25_Let their habitation be desolate. _Here he proceeds farther than in the preceding verse, praying that God would cause his wrath to descend to their posterity; and it is no new thing for the sins of...

  • 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 HABITATION BE DESOLATE,.... Which is applied to Judas, Acts 1:20; but not to the exclusion of others; for it must be understood of the habitations of others; even of their princes and nobles...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents. Ver. 25. _Let their habitation be desolate_] Heb. their palaces, or castles, so named of being fair and high built, in row and o...

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

    _Let their habitation_ Hebrew, שׂירתם, _tiratham, their palace_, as the same word is rendered Song of Solomon 8:9, or _castle_, as Genesis 25:16, and Numbers 31:10. It is meant either of their temple,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let their habitation be desolate, their tents standing empty; AND LET NONE DWELL IN THEIR TENTS, not one inhabitant remaining to relieve the horror of utter desolation....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PLEA FOR VENGEANCE...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THEIR HABITATION: _ Heb._ their palace LET NONE DWELL: _ Heb._ let there not be a dweller...

  • 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 HABITATION, Heb. _their palace_, as this word signifies, GENESIS 25:16 NUMBERS 31:10 SONG OF SOLOMON 8:9. Either, 1. Their temple, in which they place their glory and safety. Or rather, 2. and

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 69:25 place H2918 desolate H8074 (H8737) live H3427 (H8802) tents H168 Let their - 1 King

  • 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 69:25 In Acts 1:20, this text is applied to Judas, who had taken part in destroying Jesus, who was the perfect embodiment of this psalm....

  • 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

    1 Kings 9:8; Acts 1:20; Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 6:11; Jeremiah 7:12;...

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