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 sufferings are due to his fidelity to God (Psalms 69:1). He pleads for deliverance (Psalms 69:13) and call... [ Continue Reading ]
ARE COME IN UNTO _my_ SOUL] threaten my very life.... [ Continue Reading ]
MIRE.. DEEP WATERS] to be understood figuratively of danger and distress.... [ Continue Reading ]
WEARY OF] RV 'weary with.'... [ Continue Reading ]
I RESTORED, ETC.] RM 'I had to restore,' etc., possibly a proverbial phrase for unjust treatment.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Jeremiah 15:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Jeremiah 12:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ZEAL, etc.] The Psalmist was consumed by his devotion to God's cause. THINE HOUSE] either the actual Temple, profaned by idolatry, or the Jewish nation, fallen from its high ideal. For the latter sense, see Jeremiah 11:15; Jeremiah 12:7; Jeremiah 23:11. The clause is quoted in John 2:17. THE REP... [ Continue Reading ]
SACKCLOTH] the sign of mourning. A PROVERB] or byword.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GATE] the open space beside the city gate where worthless loafers gathered.... [ Continue Reading ]
_In_ AN ACCEPTABLE TIME] lit. 'in a time of good pleasure,' i.e. at the time thou pleasest. THE TRUTH OF THY SALVATION] the faithfulness of Thy saving grace.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PIT] may be, like the waters, a general metaphor for trouble, but it is more likely that the grave is meant.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Jeremiah 15:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST KNOWN] RV 'thou knowest': cp. Jeremiah 12:3; Jeremiah 15:15; Jeremiah 18:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
HATH BROKEN MY HEART] cp. Jeremiah 23:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
GALL] some bitter and poisonous plant, perhaps the poppy. VINEGAR] wine become sour and undrinkable. The language is figurative, and perhaps proverbial, for cruel mockery of one in trouble. In spite of the verbal coincidence in Matthew 27:34, the treatment of Christ by the soldiers had not this char... [ Continue Reading ]
AND _that which._. WELFARE] RV 'and when they are in peace.' This v. is quoted freely along with Psalms 69:23 in Romans 11:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
A prayer that blindness and paralysis may fall upon the Psalmist's enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
This v. is quoted freely (from LXX) in Acts 1:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
TALK TO THE GRIEF] RV 'tell of the sorrow.' LXX 'add to the sorrow.'... [ Continue Reading ]
ADD INIQUITY, ETC.] cause their guilt to be filled up, rather than forgiven. INTO THY RIGHTEOUSNESS] into the salvation which God's righteousness secures for His people.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BOOK OF THE LIVING] RV 'of life,' the list of the righteous who are to be preserved alive. The reference is not to the future but to the present life.... [ Continue Reading ]
Praise is the truest sacrifice: cp. Psalms 50:13; Psalms 50:14. HATH HORNS AND HOOFS] is full grown as well as ceremonially clean (Leviticus 11:3).... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS PRISONERS] perhaps an allusion to the victims of the first captivity (2 Kings 24:10).... [ Continue Reading ]