hate me without. cause. Compare Psalms 35:19. Quoted in John 15:25.
mighty. The Syriac, by supplying the letter Ayin, reads "stronger than my bones", thus completing the alternation of this verse.
Then. Ginsburg suggests "I" (emphatic) instead of "Then".
Verse Psalms 69:4. _THEN I RESTORED_ THAT _WHICH I TOOK NOT AWAY._] I think, with Calmet, that this is a sort of _proverbial_ expression, like such as these, "Those who suffered the wrong, pay the co...
THEY THAT HATE ME WITHOUT A CAUSE - Without any just reason; without any provocation on my part. There were many such in the case of David, for to those who rose up against him in the time of Saul, an...
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...
The Psalmist appeals to God for help, pleading the extremity of his plight....
The number and the virulence of his foes, and the groundlessness of their hostility. For the language comp. Psalms 40:12; Psalms 35:19; Psalms 38:19. The quotation in...
DISCOURSE: 612 SORROWS AND SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST Psalms 69:1. Save me, O God! for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where...
I RESTORED THAT WHICH I TOOK NOT AWAY— _What I have not taken away, I restore upon the spot. i.e._ "I have been so far from provoking their malice, that I have been content, rather than quarrel with t...
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...
_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...
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...
I RESTORED, ETC.] RM 'I had to restore,' etc., possibly a proverbial phrase for unjust treatment....
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...
THEY THAT WOULD DESTROY ME... — Properly, _my exterminators._ It seems a piece of hypercriticism to object to this as too strong a word. It is a very allowable prolepsis. At the same time the parallel...
_[Psalms 69:5]_ רַבּ֤וּ ׀ מִ שַּׂעֲרֹ֣ות רֹאשִׁי֮ שֹׂנְאַ֪י...
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...
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies (e) wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I (f) took not away....
'Tis well, 'tis well. Euge, euge. St. Jerome renders it, vah! vah! which is the voice of one insulting and deriding. Some understand it was a detestation of deceitful flatterers. (Challoner) --- In th...
What a blessed verse is here! Amidst all the opposition and contradiction of sinners against himself, Jesus manifested that character, by which Jehovah had pointed him out to the church by the prophet...
4._They who hate me without cause are more in number than the hairs of my head _The Psalmist now expresses without figure what he had said under the metaphors of the mire and of the impetuous rushing...
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...
THEY THAT HATE ME WITHOUT A CAUSE,.... As the Jews did; see John 15:18; for he did no injury to the persons or properties of men; but went about continually doing good, both to their souls and bodies...
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. Ver. 4....
_I am weary of my crying_ I have prayed and cried to God long and fervently, and yet God seems to neglect and forsake me. _My throat is dried_ With loud and frequent cries. _Mine eyes fail_ With looki...
They that hate Me without a cause, while He is innocent of any wrong-doing, ARE MORE THAN THE HAIRS OF MINE HEAD, having increased at such a rate that they outnumber the hairs which are commonly consi...
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...
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...
WITHOUT A CAUSE; without any injury or occasion given them by me. RESTORED THAT WHICH I TOOK NOT AWAY; either because they unjustly and violently forced me to it, or because I was willing to do it to...
Psalms 69:4 hate H8130 (H8802) cause H2600 more H7231 (H8804) hairs H8185 head H7218 mighty H6105 ...
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...
_I restored that which I took not away._ CHRIST RESTORING WHAT HE TOOK NOT AWAY I. What it is which was taken away, and from whom. 1. Glory was taken from God. (1) The glory of God shining forth i...
_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...
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 69:4 HATE ME WITHOUT CAUSE. This is not a claim of total innocence; the psalm acknowledges that the singer is not perfect (THE WRONGS I HAVE DONE ARE NOT HIDDEN FROM YOU). Rather,...
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 Peter 2:22; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Is
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...
I restored — For peace sake....