Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Psalms 69:7-12
Such discouragement must be the inevitable consequence if he is abandoned, for it is for God's sake that he is persecuted and defamed. Comp. the plea of the nation in Psalms 44:14 ff.
Such discouragement must be the inevitable consequence if he is abandoned, for it is for God's sake that he is persecuted and defamed. Comp. the plea of the nation in Psalms 44:14 ff.
Verse Psalms 69:7. _FOR THY SAKE I HAVE BORNE REPROACH_] The Gentiles have said, "Why such an obstinate attachment to the _worship_ of a Being who treats you so rigorously, and who interests not himse...
BECAUSE FOR THY SAKE I HAVE BORNE REPROACH - In thy cause; in defense of thy truth; because I have professed to be a friend of God. The true reason why these calamities have come upon me is that I hav...
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...
FOR THY SAKE— i.e. "Merely because I adhere to thee, and will use no unlawful means to right myself." See 1 Samuel 24:10; 1 Samuel 24:22....
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...
_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 s...
Cp. Jeremiah 15:15....
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...
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...
BECAUSE. — Better, _for._ FOR THY SAKE. — It is plain from Psalms 69:9 that these words can only mean that the reproach under which the psalmist (or the community of which he was the spokesman) labou...
_[Psalms 69:8]_ כִּֽי ־עָ֭לֶיךָ נָשָׂ֣אתִי חֶרְפָּ֑ה כִּסְּתָ֖ה...
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...
A CRY OUT OF DEEP WATERS Psalms 69:1 This psalm and the Psalms 22:1 are quoted most often in the New Testament as referring to our Lord. Psalms 69:1 is very sad. Throughout we detect a heart-break. T...
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...
Reader! is not this a sweet prayer of Jesus, that none of his redeemed may ever take shame at his cross, but rather glory in it? And observe how the cause of the Father is pointed at in all that belon...
7_For on thy account I have suffered reproach _He now expresses more distinctly what he had stated ironically in the fifth verse, where he asserts that his faults were not hidden from God. Nay, he pro...
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...
BECAUSE FOR THY SAKE I HAVE BORNE REPROACH,.... Being reckoned a sinner, called a deceiver, said to be a Samaritan, and to have a devil; with many other reproaches, which he bore patiently for the sak...
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. Ver. 7. _Because for thy sake I have borne reproach_] Whatever mine enemies pretend, they strike at thee, Lord, through my side...
_Because for thy sake_ For my trust in thy promises, obedience to thy commands, and zeal for thy glory; “because I adhere to thee, and will use no unlawful means to right myself;” _I have borne reproa...
THE MESSIAH'S VICARIOUS SUFFERING. To the chief musician, for use in the public assembly of the congregation, upon Shoshannim, to be sung to the melody "On the Lilies. " The psalm is referred to seven...
Because for Thy sake, by God's predetermined foreknowledge and counsel, I HAVE BORNE REPROACH, Isaiah 53:4; SHAME HATH COVERED MY FACE, the full disgrace of the guilt of all mankind....
1-12 We should frequently consider the person of the Sufferer here spoken of, and ask why, as well as what he suffered, that, meditating thereon, we may be more humbled for sin, and more convinced of...
FOR THY SAKE; for my trust in thy promise, and obedience to thy commands, and zeal for thy glory, and against all wickedness; all which they turn into matter of derision and reproach. MY FACE; in whic...
Psalms 69:7 borne H5375 (H8804) reproach H2781 Shame H3639 covered H3680 (H8765) face H6440 Because -...
We shall read together at this time a part of the 69 th Psalm, and afterwards two passages in the New Testament. Although there is no doubt that this Psalm is intended to describe a very large class o...
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...
_Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul._ HUMAN SUFFERING I. Man’s sufferings are sometimes overwhelmingly great. This shows-- 1. The abnormal state of man. Was man made to suffer...
_For Thy sake I have borne reproach._ SUFFERING TORTURE FOR CHRIST’S SAKE An echo of the Boxer risings in China was heard in the address of Dr. Whitfield Guinness. In July, 1900, the little party wit...
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
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...
Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 53:3; Jeremiah 15:15; John 15:21;...
THE PSALM OF THE TRESPASS OFFERING Psalms 69:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The 69th Psalm, which we are to study today, is one of those great Calvary Psalms which stir our souls. Like other Psalms there are...
For thy sake — For my obedience to thy commands, and zeal for thy glory....