Romans 11:9

And David saith Psalms 69:22, (LXX. Psalms 68:23.) The quotation is nearly (in Romans 11:10 verbatim) with the LXX.; which in the first of the two verses expands the Hebrew. The Heb. there may be rendered, "May their table before them become a trap, and let it be, when they are at peace, (in security,) a snare." The idea of requitallies in the root of the Heb. word for "peace;" and thus the LXX. interpreted "unto requitals of them;" assuming another form of the word. The whole Psalm is full of Messiah. The point of the quotation is that the Psalm indicates a judicial turning of blessings into curses, and a judicial blindness and impotence of the soul, as the way in which retribution would come on Messiah's enemies. "Seeing then that this imprecation remains for all the adversaries of Christ that their meat should be converted into poison, (as we see that the Gospel is to be the savour of death unto death,) let us embrace with humility and trembling the grace of God." (Calvin.)