Psalm 69:18-36 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:25

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" F11 טיר־תאם "palatium eorum", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Cocceius, Michaelis; "castella eorum", Junius & Tremellius,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:26

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten ,.... Meaning the Messiah, who was not only smitten and scourged by men, but was stricken and smitten of God; according to his determinate counsel and foreknowledge, and agreeably to his will and plea sure; with the rod of his justice for the satisfaction of it; for the sins of his people, whose surety he was. Him the Jews followed with reproaches and calumnies; pursued after his life, and persecuted him unto death; and which was the cause of... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:27

Add iniquity to their iniquity ,.... Let them alone in sin; suffer them to go on in it; lay no restraints upon them; put no stop in providence in their way; let them proceed from one evil to another, till they fall into ruin: to their natural and acquired hardness of heart, give them up to a judicial hardness; that they may do things that are not convenient, and be damned. Suffer them not to stop at the crucifixion of the Messiah; let them go on to persecute his apostles and followers; to... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:28

Let them be blotted out of the book of life ,.... Which some understand of this animal life, or of the catalogue of living saints; of their being not written among the living in Jerusalem, or in the writing of the house of Israel, Isaiah 4:3 . The Targum is, "let them he blotted out of the book of the memory of the living.' Let their names rot and perish, being buried in everlasting oblivion. Aben Ezra interprets this book of the heavens; where, he says, all things that should come to... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:29

But I am poor and sorrowful ,.... The Messiah was poor in a literal sense, as it was foretold he should, Zechariah 9:9 ; so he was in his private life; born of poor parents, and brought up in a mean way: and in his public life, having no certain dwelling place, and ministered to by others; and when on the cross, being stripped of his garments; and nothing to eat and drink but gall and vinegar; and nothing to leave to his mother, but commits her to the care of his beloved disciple. Though... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:30

I will praise the name of God with a song ,.... The "name" of God is himself, his perfections and attributes; which are to be "praised" by all his creatures, and especially his saints; and here by the Messiah, who sung the praise of God with his disciples at the supper, a little before his death; and in the great congregation in heaven, upon his ascension thither, having finished the great work of man's redemption. For as it was no lessening of his glory, as Mediator, to pray to God when on... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:31

This also shall please the Lord ,.... That is, this song of praise and thanksgiving. The Targum has it, "my prayers;' as if it retorted to Psalm 69:29 ; but what is expressed in Psalm 69:30 seems to be the proper antecedent to this, and which is a sacrifice; see Psalm 50:14 ; and more acceptable to God than any of the legal sacrifices, even when they were in force; and much more, now they are abrogated; and especially as offered up by the Messiah himself, all whose offerings are... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:32

The humble shall see this, and be glad ,.... The resurrection and exaltation of Christ, Psalm 69:29 ; the meek and humble followers of Christ, as his disciples were, saw him risen from the dead, saw him alive, to whom he showed himself forty days after his resurrection; they saw his hands, and feet, and side, and the prints of the nails and spear in them; they saw him go up to heaven, to be set on high at the right hand of God; and humble believers now see him by faith, crowned with... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:33

For the Lord heareth the poor ,.... The prayer of the poor, as the Targum; of the poor disciples of Christ, who were together mourning, weeping, and praying, when their Lord was dead, and laid in the sepulchre, Mark 16:10 ; this epithet agrees with all the followers of Christ, who for the most part are literally poor, and are all of them so in a spiritual sense; they are poor in spirit, and are sensible of it; they are full of wants, and these daily return upon them; wherefore they... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:34

Let the heaven and earth praise him ,.... As those, by a prosopopoeia, are often called upon to do, to express the greatness of the favour enjoyed, and to excite those that are possessed of it to greater joy and thankfulness; see Psalm 96:11 ; or the inhabitants of the heavens and earth may be meant, as the angels of heaven; and so the Targum interprets it; who, as they praised the Lord at the incarnation of Christ, Luke 2:14 ; so doubtless they did at his ascension, when he was seen and... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:34

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