The Most Avoided Messianic Psalm (8): “Pour Out Thine Indignation Upon Them” (Psalm 69:23-25) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. The Awesome Meaning
II. The Parties Involved
III. The Profound Significance
Psalm singing: 122:1-9; 35:21-28; 109:8-14; 69:21-26
Scripture reading: Psalm 69:1-26

Matthew Poole on Psalm 69:23: “Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. Their eyes; not the eyes of their bodies (for so this was not accomplished in David’s nor in Christ’s enemies) but of their minds, that they may not discern God’s truth, nor their own duty, nor the way of peace and salvation. Punish them in their own kind; as they shut their eyes and would not see, so do thou judicially blind them. This was threatened and inflicted upon the Jews, Isaiah 6:10; John 12:39, 40. Their loins: this also belongs to the loins of their minds or souls; of which we read Luke 12:35; 1 Peter 1:13. The loins of the body are the seat of strength, and the great instrument of bodily motions and actions; which being applied to the mind, the sense may be, either, 1. Take away their courage and alacrity, and give them up to pusillanimity, and terror, and despair; or rather, 2. Take away their strength and ability for spiritual actions. In the former branch, he wisheth that they may not be able to see or choose their way; and here, that they may not be able to walk in it, nor to execute the good counsels which others may give them. As, on the other side, when God gives men strength, they are able not only to walk, but to run in the ways of God, Psalm 119:32; Song of Solomon 1:4; Isaiah 40:31.”
William S. Plumer on Psalm 69:25: “Let their habitation be desolate. This clause is quoted by Christ in his lament over Jerusalem, and applied to the Jewish nation, showing its prophetical character, Matt. 23:37, 28. It is also quoted by Peter and applied to Judas Iscariot, Acts 1:16-20.”

Psalm 122:1-9
1 I JOY’D when to the house of God,
Go up, they said to me.
2 Jerusalem, within thy gates
our feet shall standing be.
3 Jerus’lem, as a city, is
compactly built together:
4 Unto that place the tribes go up,
the tribes of God go thither:
To Isr’el’s testimony, there
to God’s name thanks to pay.
5 For thrones of judgment, ev’n the thrones
of David’s house, there stay.
6 Pray that Jerusalem may have
peace and felicity:
Let them that love thee and thy peace
have still prosperity.
7 Therefore I wish that peace may still
within thy walls remain,
And ever may thy palaces
prosperity retain.
8 Now, for my friends’ and brethren's sakes,
Peace be in thee, I’ll say.
9 And for the house of God our Lord,
I’ll seek thy good alway.

Psalm 35:21-28
21 With mouths set wide, they ’gainst me said,
Ha, ha! our eye doth see.
22 Lord, thou hast seen, hold not thy peace;
Lord, be not far from me.
23 Stir up thyself; wake, that thou may’st
judgment to me afford,
Ev’n to my cause, 0 thou that art
my only God and Lord.
24 0 Lord my God, do thou me judge
after thy righteousness;
And let them not their joy ’gainst me
triumphantly express:
25 Nor Iet them say within their hearts,
Ah, we would have it thus;
Nor suffer them to say, that he
is swallow’d up by us.
26 Sham’d and confounded be they all
that at my hurt are glad ;
Let those against me that do boast
with shame and scorn be clad.
27 Let them that love my righteous cause
be glad, shout, and not cease
To say, The Lord be magnify’d,
who loves his servant’s peace.
28 Thy righteousness shall also be
declared by my tongue ;
The praises that belong to thee
speak shall it all day long

Psalm 109:8-14
8 Few be his days, and in his room
his charge another take.
9 His children let be fatherless,
his wife a widow make.
10 His children let be vagabonds,
and beg continually:
And from their places desolate
seek bread for their supply
11 Let covetous extortioners
catch all he hath away :
Of all for which he labour’d hath
let strangers make a prey.
12 Let there be none to pity him,
let there be none at all
That on his children fatherless
will let his mercy fall.
13 Let his posterity from earth
cut off for ever be,
And in the foll’wing age their name
be blotted out by thee.
14 Let God his father’s wickedness
still to remembrance call;
And never let his mother’s sin
be blotted out at all.

Psalm 69:21-26
21 They also bitter gall did give
unto me for my meat:
They gave me vinegar to drink,
when as my thirst was great.
22 Before them let their table prove
a snare; and do thou make
Their welfare and prosperity
a trap themselves to take.
23 Let thou their eyes so darken’d be,
that sight may them forsake;
And let their loins be made by thee
continually to shake.
24 Thy fury pour thou out on them,
and indignation;
And let thy wrathful anger, Lord,
fast hold take them upon.
25 All waste and desolate let be
their habitation;
And in their tabernacles all
inhabitants be none.
26 Because him they do persecute,
whom thou didst smite before;
They talk unto the grief of those
whom thou hast wounded sore.