Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 69:25
Let their habitation be desolate, their tents standing empty; and let none dwell in their tents, not one inhabitant remaining to relieve the horror of utter desolation.
Let their habitation be desolate, their tents standing empty; and let none dwell in their tents, not one inhabitant remaining to relieve the horror of utter desolation.
LET THEIR HABITATION BE DESOLATE - Margin, “their palace.” The Hebrew word means properly a wall; then, a fortress or castle; and then it means also a nomadic encampment, a rustic village, a farm-haml...
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 ...
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...
LET, &C. Quoted in Acts 1:20. HABITATION. palace:. place surrounded by. wall. Occurs only here in Psalms....
_their habitation_ Rather, as R.V. marg., their encampment; cp. Genesis 25:16; Numbers 31:10; Ezekiel 25:4 (R.V.). The language is a survival from the habits of nomad life, with which however the Isra...
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...
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...
_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 q...
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...
This v. is quoted freely (from LXX) in Acts 1:20....
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...
HABITATION. — The derivation is from a word meaning _circle,_ and a better rendering is therefore _encampment_ or _village._ Nomadic tribes pitch their tents in an enclosed ring. The derivation of the...
_[Psalms 69:26]_ תְּהִי ־טִֽירָתָ֥ם נְשַׁמָּ֑ה בְּ֝ אָהֳלֵיהֶ֗ם...
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...
“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...
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...
Let their (t) habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents. (t) Punish not only them, but their posterity, who will be like them....
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...
25_Let their habitation be desolate. _Here he proceeds farther than in the preceding verse, praying that God would cause his wrath to descend to their posterity; and it is no new thing for the sins of...
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...
LET THEIR HABITATION BE DESOLATE,.... Which is applied to Judas, Acts 1:20; but not to the exclusion of others; for it must be understood of the habitations of others; even of their princes and nobles...
Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents. Ver. 25. _Let their habitation be desolate_] Heb. their palaces, or castles, so named of being fair and high built, in row and o...
_Let their habitation_ Hebrew, שׂירתם, _tiratham, their palace_, as the same word is rendered Song of Solomon 8:9, or _castle_, as Genesis 25:16, and Numbers 31:10. It is meant either of their temple,...
THEIR HABITATION: _ Heb._ their palace LET NONE DWELL: _ Heb._ let there not be a dweller...
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;...
THEIR HABITATION, Heb. _their palace_, as this word signifies, GENESIS 25:16 NUMBERS 31:10 SONG OF SOLOMON 8:9. Either, 1. Their temple, in which they place their glory and safety. Or rather, 2. and
Psalms 69:25 place H2918 desolate H8074 (H8737) live H3427 (H8802) tents H168 Let their - 1 King
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...
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...
_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...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 69:25 In Acts 1:20, this text is applied to Judas, who had taken part in destroying Jesus, who was the perfect embodiment of this psalm....
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 9:8; Acts 1:20; Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 6:11; Jeremiah 7:12;...