Psalms 69:22

Verse Psalms 69:22. Let their table become a snare] The execrations here and in the following verses should be read in the future tense, because they are predictive; and not in the imperative mood, as if they were the offspring of the psalmist's resentment: "Their table SHALL become a snare; - their eyes SHALL be darkened; - thou WILT pour out thine indignation upon them;-thy wrathful anger SHALL take hold of them; - their habitation SHALL be desolate, - and none SHALL dwell in their tents."

The psalmist prophesies that the evils which they had inflicted on the Israelites should be visited on themselves; that as they had made them eat, drink, labour, and suffer, so God should in his judgment treat them.