Psalms 69:22-28

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 proceeding from the Psalmist, have regarded these verses as the utterance of the Psalmist's enemies, invoking destruction upon him and his companions. But such an interpretation is unnatural: the pronouns -their" and -they" in Psalms 69:22 ff. cannot have a different reference from -they" in Psalms 69:21.