Psalm 69:29-36 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 69:22-29

These imprecations are not David's prayers against his enemies, but prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors, especially the Jewish nation, which our Lord himself foretold with tears, and which was accomplished about forty years after the death of Christ. The first two verses of this paragraph are expressly applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews by the apostle (Ps. 69:22, 23; Rom. 11:9, 10), and therefore the whole must look that way. The rejection of the Jews... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 69:30-36

The psalmist here, both as a type of Christ and as an example to Christians, concludes a psalm with holy joy and praise which he began with complaints and remonstrances of his griefs. I. He resolves to praise God himself, not doubting but that therein he should be accepted of him (Ps. 69:30, 31): ?I will praise the name of God, not only with my heart, but with my song, and magnify him with thanksgiving;? for he is pleased to reckon himself magnified by the thankful praises of his people. It is... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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 Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:35

For God will save Zion ,.... The church of Christ, as it is often called; See Gill on Psalm 2:6 ; this is to be understood not so much of the salvation of the people of God, by Christ, from sin and Satan, and the world, law, hell, and death, as of the preservation and continuance of the Gospel church state, notwithstanding all the opposition and persecution of the Jews and Gentiles; and especially of the deliverance of the Lord's people, in the latter day, from the cruelty, captivity, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:36

The seed also of his servants shall inherit it ,.... Not their natural, but spiritual seed, or a succession of converts in the churches; see Psalm 45:16 ; who are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God; not of corruptible, but incorruptible seed, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever, John 1:13 ; these are the proper and rightful inheritors of the Gospel church state, and all its privileges, in all successive generations, quite... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 69:22-29

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 69:30-36

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:36

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