Chapter 69

Verse 1

Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

(Title

&) Shoshannim.

A Psalm

It is uncertain when this Psalm was composed; though it is probable that it was written by David during the rebellion of Absalom. It is an exceedingly fine composition; it evidently refers to the advent, passion, and resurrection of our Lord, to the vocation of the Gentiles, and the reprobation of Jews: See the Marginal References.

the waters

2,14,15 18:4 42:7 Isaiah 28:17 43:2 Lamentations 3:54 Jonah 2:3-5 Revelation 12:15,16 17:15

Verse 2

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

I sink

40:2 Jeremiah 38:6,22

deep mire

Heb. the mire of depth. deep waters. Heb. depth of waters.

88:6,7 Ezekiel 27:26-34

the floods

32:6 Genesis 7:17-23 Matthew 7:25 26:37,38

Verse 3

I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Verse 4

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

hate

John 15:25 1 Peter 2:22

more than

40:12

being

7:3-5 35:12,19 38:19,20 109:3-5

then I

Isaiah 53:4-7 2 Corinthians 5:21 1 Peter 2:24 3:18

Verse 5

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

and my sins

Heb. and my guiltiness.

17:3 19:12 44:20,21

hid

38:9 Jeremiah 16:17

Verse 6

Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

Let not

7:7 25:3 35:26 Isaiah 49:23 Luke 24:19-21 Acts 4:7

O God of Israel

72:18 2 Samuel 23:3 Acts 13:17,23

Verse 7

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Because

22:6-8 44:22 Jeremiah 15:15 John 15:21-24

shame

Isaiah 50:6 53:3 Matthew 26:67,68 27:29,30,38-44 Luke 23:11,35-37 Hebrews 12:2

Verse 8

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

become

31:11 Job 19:13-19 Matthew 26:48-50,56,70-74 John 1:11 7:5

and an alien

1 Samuel 17:28 Micah 7:5,6 Matthew 10:21,22,35,36

Verse 9

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

zeal

119:139 1 Kings 19:10 1 Chronicles 15:27-29 29:3 Mark 11:15-17 John 2:14-17

and the

89:50,51 Romans 15:3

Verse 10

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

102:8,9 109:24,25 Luke 7:33,34

Verse 11

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

I made

35:13,14 Isaiah 20:2 22:12 Joel 1:8,13

I became

44:13,14 Deuteronomy 28:37 1 Kings 9:7 Jeremiah 24:9

Verse 12

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

They

Deuteronomy 16:18 Matthew 27:12,13,20,41,42,62,63 Luke 23:2 Acts 4:26,27

I was

35:15,16 Job 30:8,9 Mark 15:17-19

drunkards

Heb. drinkers of strong drink.

Daniel 5:2-4,23

Verse 13

But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

my prayer

55:16,17 91:15 Matthew 26:36-46 Luke 22:44 John 17:1-26 Hebrews 5:7 1 Peter 2:23

in an

1 Samuel 25:8 Esther 5:2,6 7:2 Isaiah 49:8 55:6 2 Corinthians 6:2

in the

40:10,11 98:3 Genesis 24:27 Micah 7:20 Luke 1:72 Acts 13:32,33 Romans 15:8,9

Verse 14

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Deliver

40:1-3 Jeremiah 38:6-13 Lamentations 3:55

let me

25:18,19 35:19 109:3,21 Luke 19:14,27 Acts 5:30,31

out of

1,2,15 42:7 124:4,5 144:7 Mark 14:34-42 15:34

Verse 15

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

waterflood

Isaiah 43:1,2 Jonah 2:2-7 Matthew 12:40 Revelation 12:15,16

pit

16:10 88:4-6 Numbers 16:33,34 Acts 2:24,31

Verse 16

Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

for thy

36:7 63:3 109:21

turn

25:16 26:11 86:15,16 Micah 7:19

according

13 51:1 Isaiah 63:7

Verse 17

And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

hide

13:1 22:24 27:9 44:24 102:2 143:9 Matthew 27:46

for I am

Matthew 26:38

hear me speedily

Heb. make haste to hear me.

40:13 70:1 Job 7:21

Verse 18

Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

Draw

10:1 22:1,19 Jeremiah 14:8

redeem

31:5 111:9 Job 6:23

because

Deuteronomy 32:27 Joshua 7:9

Verse 19

Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

my reproach

7-9 22:6,7 Isaiah 53:3 Hebrews 12:2 1 Peter 2:23

dishonour

John 8:49

mine

2:2-4 38:9

Verse 20

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.

Reproach

42:10 123:4 Hebrews 11:36

I am

42:6 Matthew 26:37,38 John 12:27

I looked

Isaiah 63:5 Mark 14:37,50

take pity

Heb. to lament with me. but there.

142:4 John 16:32 2 Timothy 4:16,17

comforters

Job 16:2 19:21,22 Matthew 26:56

Verse 21

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

gall for my meat

Bochart, from a comparison of this passage with Joh 19:29, thinks that rosh is the same herb as the evangelist calls [ ] hyssop; a species of which, growing in Judea, he proves from Isaac ben Orman, an Arabian writer, to be so bitter as not to be eatable. Theophylact expressly tells us, that the hyssop was added [ ] as being deleterious, or poisonous: and Nonnus, in his paraphrase, says, [ ] "One gave the deadly acid mixed with hyssop."

Jeremiah 8:14 9:15 23:15 Matthew 27:34,48