Psalm 69:22-28 ASV

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:22

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 who prayed for his enemies, while they were using him as above related: but they are prophecies of what should be, being delivered out under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, Acts 1:16 . Wherefore some versions render the words, "their table shall become a snare" F8 יהו "erit",... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:23

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not ,.... Not literally, the eyes of their bodies; but figuratively, the eyes of their understanding; which were so darkened, and they given up to such judicial blindness, that they could not discern the signs of the times that the Messiah must be come, Daniel's weeks being up; could not see any glory, excellency, and comeliness in Christ; could not see the evidence of the Messiahship of Jesus in the miracles he wrought; nor in the prophecies of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:24

Pour out thine indignation upon them ,.... Not a few drops of it only, but a flood of it, sweeping away and bearing down all before it; which was done when wrath came upon them to the uttermost, in the destruction of their city, temple, and nation, 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; let thy wrathful anger take hold of them ; follow after them, overtake them, seize upon them, and hold them fast, that they may not escape. It denotes the severity of God towards them; the fierceness and fury of his... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 mood, as if they were the offspring of the psalmist's resentment: "Their table Shall become a snare; - their eyes Shall be darkened; - thou Wilt pour out thine indignation upon them; - thy wrathful anger Shall take hold of them; - their habitation Shall be desolate, - and none Shall dwell in their tents." The psalmist... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 69:27

Add iniquity unto their iniquity - עונם על עון תנה tenah avon al avonam ; give iniquity, that is, the reward of it, upon or for their iniquity. Or, as the original signifies perverseness, treat their perverseness with perverseness: act, in thy judgments, as crookedly towards them as they dealt crookedly towards thee. They shall get, in the way of punishment, what they have dealt out in the way of oppression. read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 69:24

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 69:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 69:27

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