What does Psalms 69:22 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap."
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 m...
LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE BEFORE THEM - These verses are quoted by Paul Romans 11:9 as descriptive of the character of persons in his time, or as “language” which would express what he desired to...
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 (Psalms 69:13) 4. The retribution (Psalms 6...
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...
LET, &C. Imprecation. Suitable for. dispensation of Law and Judgment; not for this Day of Grace. See Romans 11:9; Romans 11:10....
Let their table before them become a snare; Yea, when they are at peace, let it become a trap. The language is suggested by the metaphors of the preceding verse. They had aggravated the sufferings o...
LET THEIR TABLE, &C.— _Their table shall be for a snare before them, and their peace-offerings for a trap._ This and the following verses are to be understood in the future tense, by way of prediction...
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...
_LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE BEFORE THEM: AND THAT WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN FOR THEIR WELFARE, LET IT BECOME A TRAP._ Let their table become a snare before them. Here Christ, the antitype and the re...
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...
LET THEIR TABLE. — The form of this imprecation is, of course, suggested by the figurative language immediately preceding. Life had been made bitter by rancour and enmity, and the psalmist hurls back...
_[Psalms 69:23]_ יְהִֽי ־שֻׁלְחָנָ֣ם לִ פְנֵיהֶ֣ם לְ פָ֑ח וְ לִ שְׁלֹומִ֥ים לְ מֹוקֵֽשׁ׃...
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...
“JEHOVAH HEARETH THE NEEDY” Psalms 69:18 In Psalms 69:19 the psalmist again spreads out his griefs before God. He had looked for pity, but his foes only aggravated his sufferings. Both Matthew and Jo...
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...
Let their (r) table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. (r) He desires God to execute his judgments against the reprobate, which...
We may accept these verses as so many expressions of prophecy, which were literally fulfilled, as our Lord elsewhere predicted, in the siege and overthrow of Jerusalem, about forty years after the asc...
22._Let their table before them be for a snare. _Here we have a series of dire imprecations, with respect to which we must bear in mind, what we have elsewhere observed, that David did not allow himse...
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...
LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE BEFORE THEM,.... This and the following imprecations were not the effects of a spirit of private revenge; of which there was no appearance in Christ, but all the reverse...
Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. Ver. 22. _Let their table become a snare before them_] Let them eat their ba...
_Let their table_, &c. Dr. Waterland renders the verse, _Their table shall be for a snare before them, and their peace-offerings for a trap._ “This and the following verses are to be read in the futur...
Let their table become a snare before them, spread for a banquet as it appeared, Psalms 23:5, it should become a trap to the enemies; AND THAT WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN FOR THEIR WELFARE, LET IT BECOME A...
22-29 These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verses Psalms 69:22; Psalms 69:23, are applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews, in Romans 11:9; Romans 11:10....
These and the following words, which are expressed in the form of imprecations, are thought by divers to be and that the imperatives are put for the as sometimes they are. And accordingly they transla...
Psalms 69:22 table H7979 snare H6341 before H6440 well-being H7965 trap H4170 Let their table - Proverbs 1:32; Malachi 2:2; Romans 11:8-10 a trap - Isaiah 8:14-15; 1 Peter 2:8...
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...
_But as for me, my prayer is unto Thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time._ THE COMPASSIONABLE, COMMENDABLE, AND CENSURABLE I. The compassionable. The representation which the author here gives of his s...
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 suffering and make it worse (v...
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 2:8; Isaiah 8:14; Isaiah 8:15; Malachi 2:2; Proverbs 1:32; Romans 11:8...
Their table — And this punishment in their table, exactly answers their sin, in giving Christ gall for his meat, Psalms 69:21. A snare — Their table or meat, which is set before them, shall become a s...