Bible Commentary

[This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hooves. 31. And it shall please Jehovah better than an ox, (Or) a bullock that hath horns and hoofs. The Massoretic accentuation makes one clause of the verse, reading it better than an ox-bullock: but the division of the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:31”

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. I will praise the name of God with a song – As the result of my deliverance, I will compose a song or a psalm especially adapted to the occasion, and suited to express and perpetuate my feelings. It … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:30”

But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. 29. But as for me, who am afflicted and sore pained, Thy salvation, O God, shall set me up on high. The verb may be rendered as a prayer (A.V.), or as an expression of confidence (P.B.V.). God’s deliverance … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:29”

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 28. the book of the living ] Or, as R.V., the book of life. The figure is borrowed from the lists or registers of citizens (Jer 22:30; Eze 13:9). God has a book in which the names … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:28”

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. 27. Some commentators, retaining the A.V. rendering of Psa 69:26, regard Psa 69:27-28 as the words of the Psalmist’s enemies, directed against him and his fellow sufferers. This interpretation has been advocated, as removing from the mouth of the Psalmist at any … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:27”

For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. 26. For they persecute &c.] They had no commission to aggravate the sufferings of one who was already smitten with the rod of chastisement by God Himself. We think of Job and his friends (Job … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:26”

Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents. 25. their habitation ] Rather, as R.V. marg., their encampment; cp. Gen 25:16; Num 31:10; Eze 25:4 (R.V.). The language is a survival from the habits of nomad life, with which however the Israelites must always have been familiar. Cp. Jer 4:20; Jer … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:25”

Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 24. Cp. Psa 79:6; Jer 10:25. and let &c.] R.V., and let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Pour out thine indignation upon them – That is, Punish them for their … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:24”

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 23. Let the eyes which gloated over another’s misfortunes be blinded: let the limbs which are the seat of the strength they have abused be palsied. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Their eyes; not the eyes … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:23”

Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. 22. Let their table before them become a snare; Yea, when they are at peace, let it become a trap. The language is suggested by the metaphors of the preceding verse. They had … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 69:22”