_SAVE ME, O GOD; FOR THE WATERS ARE COME IN UNTO MY SOUL._ Psalms 69:1.-The sufferer's misery and cry to God (Psalms 69:1); God knows that the reproach which he suffers, as if sinful and foolish, he incurs through zeal for God's glory (Psalms 69:5); he renews prayer for deliverance (Psalms 69:13); a... [ Continue Reading ]
_I SINK IN DEEP MIRE, WHERE THERE IS NO STANDING: I AM COME INTO DEEP WATERS, WHERE THE FLOODS OVERFLOW ME._ I sink in deep mire (Psalms 40:2.) - literally, the mire of the deep; not that of a pit, but of the deep sea. Like Jeremiah, the type, the dungeon of Malchiah (Jeremiah 38:6).... [ Continue Reading ]
_I AM WEARY OF MY CRYING: MY THROAT IS DRIED: MINE EYES FAIL WHILE I WAIT FOR MY GOD._ Mine eyes fail, while I wait for my God - as one's vision fails when it is kept long fixed in one direction in the distance, and strained in the vain hope that the desired object will come in view (Psalms 119:82;... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY THAT HATE ME WITHOUT A CAUSE ARE MORE THAN THE HAIRS OF MINE HEAD: THEY THAT WOULD DESTROY ME, BEING MINE ENEMIES WRONGFULLY, ARE MIGHTY: THEN I RESTORED THAT WHICH I TOOK NOT AWAY._ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head. In Psalms 40:12 it is "mine iniquities... [ Continue Reading ]
_O GOD, THOU KNOWEST MY FOOLISHNESS; AND MY SINS ARE NOT HID FROM THEE._ -He appeals in support of his prayer to God's knowledge that he suffers reproach and estrangement, as if he were foolish and sinful, for the sake of God, and through zeal for His glory. Verse 5. O GOD, THOU KNOWEST MY FOOLISHN... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT AS FOR ME, MY PRAYER IS UNTO THEE, O LORD, IN AN ACCEPTABLE TIME: O GOD, IN THE MULTITUDE OF THY MERCY HEAR ME, IN THE TRUTH OF THY SALVATION._ -The prayer for deliverance renewed from Psalms 69:1; Psalms 69:5, more fully on the basis already laid down-namely, that it was for the sake of God h... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU HAST KNOWN MY REPROACH, AND MY SHAME, AND MY DISHONOUR: MINE ADVERSARIES ARE ALL BEFORE THEE._ -Again he appeals to God's knowledge of his reproach and suffering from his foes, as the ground on which he rests the following prayer for judgment on them. Verse 19. THOU HAST KNOWN MY REPROACH ..... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE BEFORE THEM: AND THAT WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN FOR THEIR WELFARE, LET IT BECOME A TRAP._ Let their table become a snare before them. Here Christ, the antitype and the real speaker, assumes the character Judge. The Jews' table was their high religious privileges (Psalms... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED, THAT THEY SEE NOT; AND MAKE THEIR LOINS CONTINUALLY TO SHAKE._ Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not - just retribution, seeing that they would not see, but loved darkness rather than light (John 12:37; John 12:40; John 9:39; John 3:19). They who will not see th... [ Continue Reading ]
_POUR OUT THINE INDIGNATION UPON THEM, AND LET THY WRATHFUL ANGER TAKE HOLD OF THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 quotes it, Matthew 23:38, "Behold, your (the Jews') house is left unto you desolate." See Dr. Brown's... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THEY PERSECUTE HIM WHOM THOU HAST SMITTEN; AND THEY TALK TO THE GRIEF OF THOSE WHOM THOU HAST WOUNDED._ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten ... they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded - literally, 'in respect to the pain of thy (mortally) pierced ones.' 'They talk exul... [ Continue Reading ]
_ADD INIQUITY UNTO THEIR INIQUITY: AND LET THEM NOT COME INTO THY RIGHTEOUSNESS._ Add iniquity (i:e., its penalty) unto their iniquity. Attach the due punishment to their iniquity, (Psalms 31:10; Psalms 40:12; Jeremiah 18:23; Lamentations 4:6, margin.) The spirit in David announces the doom of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 down in a muster-roll of the living, called "the writing of the house of Israel" (Ezekiel 13:9) and "th... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT I AM POOR AND SORROWFUL: LET THY SALVATION, O GOD, SET ME UP ON HIGH._ But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high - or rather, 'thy salvation shall set me upon high.' So the Septuagint, Vulgate, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic. But the Chaldaic as the English version... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 deliverance will cause gladness to the humble saints. Verse 31. THIS ALSO SHALL PLEASE THE LORD BETTER TH... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET THE HEAVEN AND EARTH PRAISE HIM, THE SEAS, AND EVERYTHING THAT MOVETH THEREIN._ -Call to heaven and earth to praise God, since the sufferers deliverance is a pledge that God will save Zion, literal and spiritual; and His servants shall inherit it. Verse 35. FOR GOD WILL SAVE ZION, AND WILL BU... [ Continue Reading ]