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LET THEM BE BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE LIVING - That is, Let them
cease to live; let them not be numbered among living people; let them
be cut off. This language is taken from the custom of regist...
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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 ...
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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...
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THE LIVING. life. See note on Leviticus 18:5....
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At the thought of the intolerable inhumanity of his enemies he can no
longer restrain himself, and breaks out into fierce imprecation. Some
commentators, feeling the difficulty of such imprecations pr...
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_the book of the living_ Or, as R.V., the book of life. The figure is
borrowed from the lists or registers of citizens (Jeremiah 22:30;
Ezekiel 13:9). God has a book in which the names of those who ar...
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LET THEM BE BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK— This means no more than that
they should be cut off, and die before the usual time. We have before
observed, that God is sometimes represented as recording and ent...
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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...
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_LET THEM BE BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE LIVING, AND NOT BE WRITTEN
WITH THE RIGHTEOUS._
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living. All the Israelites
who came up out of Egypt were put dow...
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THE BOOK OF THE LIVING] RV 'of life,' the list of the righteous who
are to be preserved alive. The reference is not to the future but to
the present life....
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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...
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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...
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It is doubtful whether these verses give the talk of the enemies just
mentioned, or whether the psalmist himself, after a pause, resumes his
imprecations. The former supposition certainly adds a fresh...
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BOOK OF THE LIVING — OR LIFE. — This image, which plays so great a
part in Christian poetry (Revelation 3:5; Revelation 13:8; Revelation
21:27. Comp....
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_[Psalms 69:29]_ יִ֭מָּחֽוּ מִ סֵּ֣פֶר
חַיִּ֑ים וְ...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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Let them be blotted out of the (x) book of the living, and not be
written with the righteous.
(x) They who seemed by their profession to have been written in your
book, yet by their fruits prove the...
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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...
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28._Let them be blotted out from the book of the living. _(95) This is
the last imprecation, and it is the most dreadful of the whole; but it
nevertheless uniformly follows the persevered in impeniten...
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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...
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LET THEM BE BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE,.... Which some understand
of this animal life, or of the catalogue of living saints; of their
being not written among the living in Jerusalem, or in the wr...
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Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written
with the righteous.
Ver. 28. _Let them be blotted out, &c._] Wherein they were never
indeed written among those living in Jerusal...
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_Let them be blotted out of the book of the living_ “Let them be cut
off before their time, and enjoy none of the blessings which thou hast
promised to the righteous.” Bishop Patrick. The psalmist is...
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Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, where the
redemption of the Messiah would have entered their names for eternity,
AND NOT BE WRITTEN WITH THE RIGHTEOUS, to whom the perfect
righteous...
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PLEA FOR VENGEANCE...
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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;...
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OF THE LIVING; or, _of life_: either,
1. Of this life. Out of the number of living men; which anciently used
to be written in catalogues, out of which the names of those who died
were blotted. Or rat...
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Psalms 69:28 out H4229 (H8735) book H5612 living H2416 written H3789
(H8735) righteous H6662
blotted -...
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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...
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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...
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_Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into Thy
righteousness._
IMPRECATIONS IN THE PSALMS
There are tones in the Psalter which seem to jar upon our feelings,
which do not naturally...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Exodus 32:32; Exodus 32:33; Ezekiel 13:9; Hebrews 12:23; Hosea 1:9;...
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Living — Of eternal life....