Psalms 69:25

_LET THEIR HABITATION BE DESOLATE; AND LET NONE DWELL IN THEIR TENTS._ Let their habitation be desolate. Their temple was no longer to be the temple of the Lord, but their own habitation. So Christ quotes it, Matthew 23:38, "Behold, your (the Jews') house is left unto you desolate." See Dr. Brown's note-`deserted of its divine inhabitant,' What is said of Judas (Acts 1:20) applies to Judah and Jerusalem, whom he represented....

25_Let their habitation be desolate. _Here he proceeds farther than in the preceding verse, praying that God would cause his wrath to descend to their posterity; and it is no new thing for the sins of the fathers to be cast into the bosom of the children. As David uttered these imprecations by the inspiration and influence of the Holy Spirit, so he took them out of the law itself, in which God threatens that he will “visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate him,” (Exodus 20:5) In this way he desires that the memorial of them may be cursed, and that thus God would not spare them even after their death....

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. When the supports of life and delights of sense, through the corruption of our nature, are made the food and fuel of sin, then our table is a snare. Their sin was, that they would not see, but shut their eyes against the light, loving darkness rather; their punishment was, that they should not see, but should be given up to their own hearts' lusts which hardened them. Those who reject God's great salvation proffered to them, may justly fear that his in...

LET THEIR HABITATION BE DESOLATE - Margin, “their palace.” The Hebrew word means properly a wall; then, a fortress or castle; and then it means also a nomadic encampment, a rustic village, a farm-hamlet. The word conveys the idea of an “enclosure,” with special reference to an encampment, or a collection of tents. The Septuagint renders it here ἔπαυλις _epaulis_, meaning a place to pass the night in, especially for flocks and herds. The Hebrew word - טירה _ṭı̂yrâh_ - is rendered “castles” in Genesis 25:16; Num 31:10; 1 Chronicles 6:54; “palaces” in...

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 Jeremiah" (Cheyne); but the resemblance to several Davidical psalms, especially Psalms 22:1, Psalms 25:1, and Psalms 40:1, is admitted; and the expression, "Al Shoshannim," in the "title," connects it also with Psalms 45:1 :Moreover, the "title

LET THEIR HABITATION BE DESOLATE,.... Which is applied to Judas, Acts 1:20; but not to the exclusion of others; for it must be understood of the habitations of others; even of their princes and nobles, their chief magistrates, high priest and other priests, scribes, and doctors of the law: for the word may be rendered, "their palace" or "castle" k, as it is by some; and so may denote the houses of their principal men, the members of their sanhedrim; their houses great and fair, of which there were many in Jerusalem when it was destroyed; see Isaiah 5:9; as well as the habitations of the meaner sort of people, which all became desolate at that time; and particularly their house, the temple, which was like a palace or castle, built upon a mountain. This was left desolate, as our Lord foretold it would,...

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 69:22) 5. His exaltation and the glory (Psalms 69:29) PSALM 69-72 go together and lead us prophetically from the suffering and rejected Christ to the glory of His kingdom in the Seventy-second Psalm. The Sixty-n

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 those that reproached Yahweh fell upon him. If he was defeated, the pious throughout Israel would lose hope. He was in great danger of his life, and that from his fellow-Jews (Psalms 69:8). Maccabean times suit the situation best, though Maccabean origin is incapable of proof. _Cf., e.g.,_ the career of Alcimus (pp. 382, 607) the Hellenised High Priest as related in 1 Maccabees 9, where ho is said to have pulled down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary. The Psalmist, when he wrote, was apparently excluded from Temple service, for he is content to offer the sacrifice of praise, confident that such a spiritu

LET, &C. Quoted in Acts 1:20. HABITATION. palace:. place surrounded by. wall. Occurs only here in Psalms....

At the thought of the intolerable inhumanity of his enemies he can no longer restrain himself, and breaks out into fierce imprecation. Some commentators, feeling the difficulty of such imprecations proceeding from the Psalmist, have regarded these verses as the utterance of the Psalmist's enemies, invoking destruction upon him and his companions. But such an interpretation is unnatural: the pronouns -their" and -they" in Psalms 69:22 ff. cannot have a different reference from -they" in Psalms 69:21....