7-12. This plea contemplates his relation to God as a sufferer in His cause. Reproach, domestic estrangement (Mark 3:21; John 7:5), exhaustion in God's service (John 7:5- :), revilings and taunts of base men were the sufferings. read more
Psalms 69In this imprecatory psalm of individual lament, David sought God to deliver him from destruction. He was experiencing criticism and rejection from the Israelites because of decisions he had made to do God’s will. He asked God to deal with his oppressors, and he looked forward to relief and the renewal of praise to God. Some scholars have labeled this psalm "indirectly messianic" because, while it does not specifically predict Messiah, Messiah fulfilled what the writer expressed (cf.... read more
2. The reason for and the results of David’s condition 69:5-12 read more
David had expressed his mourning over the opposition he faced by weeping internally, by going without meals, and by wearing sackcloth. His sorrow was genuine and deep. read more
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 69:1-12). He pleads for deliverance (Psalms 69:13-20) and calls upon God to take the severest vengeance on his adversaries (Psalms 69:21-28). The Ps. closes with a triumphant strain of praise (Psalms 69:29-36). Psalms 69:35 points to a date long after... read more
Looking and Not Finding Psalms 69:20 Read the whole verse; it is like the falling of a great thunder-shower of tears. 'Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.' Say you that man wrote three thousand years ago? He wrote this morning, he is with us now, he is in our hearts. A man takes his sorrow with him more surely than he takes his shadow. I. 'I looked for some to take pity.' What a... read more
Psalms 69:1-36THE 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 author has more in its favour than in the case of many of the modern attributions of psalms to him, even if, as seems most probable, the references to sinking in deep mire and the like are metaphorical. Cheyne fixes on the period preceding Nehemiah’s first journey to Jerusalem as the earliest... read more
Psalm 69-72 Psalms 69:0 The Suffering and Rejected Christ 1. Hated without a cause (Psalms 69:1-6 ) 2. Bearing reproach (Psalms 69:7-12 ) 3. His own prayer (Psalms 69:13-21 ) 4. The retribution (Psalms 69:22-28 ) 5. His exaltation and the glory (Psalms 69:29-36 ) 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-ninth Psalm, like the Forty-fifth, bears the inscription, “upon... read more
Psalms 67:0 The first half dozen of these psalms form a group millennial and Messianic. The first is millennial. It is Israel who speaks; the psalm cannot be appreciated unless the word “us” in Psalms 67:1 is so applied. When God has mercy upon and blesses Israel in the latter days, His way and His saving health unto all nations (Psalms 67:2 ) will begin to be known. In other words, the present age is one of out-gathering, but the age to come (millennial) will be one of in-gathering. God is now... read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 69:11
sackcloth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for mourning attire. proverb. Compare John 8:48 . Matthew 27:63 . read more