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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 69:31

That hath... — Literally, showing horns and dividing the hoofs, marking at once clean animals, and those of fit age for sacrifice.

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See also Psalms 69:31 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 69:31. _AN OX_ OR _BULLOCK THAT HATH HORNS AND HOOFS._] Oxen offered in sacrifice had their horns and hoofs _gilded_; and the psalmist might mention these parts of the victim more partic...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THIS ALSO SHALL PLEASE THE LORD - This will be more acceptable to the Lord. BETTER THAN AN OX OR BULLOCK THAT HATH HORNS AND HOOFS - Better than a burnt sacrifice - horns, and hoofs, and all. The orig...

  • 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

    BETTER. Praise is the truest sacrifice. AN OX. See note on "song" (Psalms 69:30). HORNS. Showing full age; not under three years (Genesis 15:9). AND. So some codices, with two early printed edition...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In contrast to the fate which his enemies deserve, the Psalmist looks forward to his own deliverance, and predicts the restoration of Jerusalem and the reestablishment there of the true people of God....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    And it shall please Jehovah better than an ox, (Or) a bullock that hath horns and hoofs. The Massoretic accentuation makes one clause of the verse, reading it _better than an ox-bullock_: but the di...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THIS ALSO SHALL PLEASE THE LORD, &C.— i.e. This is the most acceptable sacrifice which can be presented to him; and this shall be used by the Christian church, instead of the sacrifices of the law. Th...

  • 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

    _I WILL PRAISE THE NAME OF GOD WITH A SONG, AND WILL MAGNIFY HIM WITH THANKSGIVING._ -He resolves because of the anticipation of glorification (Psalms 69:29), to praise God, and hopes that his delive...

  • 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

    Praise is the truest sacrifice: cp. Psalms 50:13; Psalms 50:14. HATH HORNS AND HOOFS] is full grown as well as ceremonially clean (Leviticus 11:3)....

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 69:32]_ וְ תִיטַ֣ב לַֽ֭ יהוָה מִ...

  • 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

    [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] (y) bullock that hath horns and hoofs. (y) There is no sacrifice which God values more than thanksgiving for his benefits....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Christ had an eye to the glory that should be revealed, in all his sufferings. So saith the Holy Ghost; by the apostle, when he calls upon his people to be looking unto him, Hebrews 12:2. And hence th...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    31._And this will please Jehovah more than a young bullock. _The more effectually to strengthen himself for this exercise, David affirms that the thanksgiving which he is about to tender, will be to G...

  • 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

    [THIS] ALSO SHALL PLEASE THE LORD,.... That is, this song of praise and thanksgiving. The Targum has it, "my prayers;'' as if it retorted to Psalms 69:29; but what is expressed in Psalms 69:30 seems...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Psalms 69:31 [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs. Ver. 31. _This also shall please the Lord better, &c._] True thankfulness is _opimum et optimu...

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

    _But I am poor_, &c. Bishop Hare reads it, _“But as for me, though I am low and full of pain,”_ (Hebrew, כואב, _choeeb;_ rendered, in the plural, _they were sore, Genesis 34:25_,) _“thy salvation, O G...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs, for all external acts of worship, without the proper devotional attitude of the mind, as the out. growth of true...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PLEA FOR VENGEANCE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    30-36 The psalmist concludes the psalm with holy joy and praise, which he began with complaints of his grief. It is a great comfort to us, that humble and thankful praises are more pleasing to God th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This sincere and hearty sacrifice of praise is and shall be more grateful to God than the most glorious legal sacrifices, for so such moral services ever were, 1 SAMUEL 15:22 HOSEA 6:6, and such sacri...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 69:31 please H3190 LORD H3068 better H3190 (H8799) ox H7794 bull H6499 horns H7160 (H8688) hooves...

  • 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

    _I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving._ MORAL STATES OF MIND WORTHY OF CULTIVATION I. A noble resolution (Psalms 69:30). There are many ways of praising...

  • 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 69:29 The writer promises to MAGNIFY God with public THANKSGIVING when God saves him from his enemies (SET ME ON HIGH).

  • 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 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 5:19; Ephesians 5:20; Hebrews 13:15; Hosea 14:2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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