Psalms 69:5-6

Chastisement is not undeserved; but he commits himself to the mercy of the Omniscient, and pleads for a hearing on the ground that the cause of all God's servants is bound up with his cause. If he is abandoned they must be discouraged and exposed to the contempt of the world.

Thouis emphatic. Similar appeals to God's omniscience are characteristic of Jeremiah (ch. Jeremiah 12:3; Jeremiah 15:15; Jeremiah 17:16; Psalms 18:23). Sin is designated as -foolishness" in Psalms 38:5, where, as here, the Psalmist acknowledges that his sufferings are the chastisement of his sin. This is the only other passage in which the word occurs, except in the Book of Proverbs, where it is common.

sins Lit. guiltinesses; cp. Psalms 68:21.