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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 69 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Of the word "shoshannim", [See comments on Psalms 45:1], title. The Targum renders it, "concerning the removal of the sanhedrim;'' which was about the time of Christ's death. The Talmudists (t) say, that forty years before the destruction of the temple, the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Save me, O God,.... The petitioner is Christ; not as a divine Person, as such he is blessed for ever, and stands in no need of help and assistance; but as man, and in distressed and suffering circumstances. As a priest, it was part of his work to intercede, as well as to offer sacrifice; and though he did not offer a sin offering for himself, yet...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
David penned this psalm when he was in affliction; and in it, I. He complains of the great distress and trouble he was in and earnestly begs of God to relieve and succour him, ver. 1-21. II. He imprecates the judgments of God upon his persecutors, ver. 22-29. III. He concludes with the voice of joy and praise, in an assurance that God would help...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Save me, O God; for the waters are come into my soul. The waves have not only teased the bank, but they have dashed over the bulwarks, and there is a flood within, as well as a flood without.
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. Save me, O God. "He saved others, himself he cannot save." With strong cries and tears he offered up prayers and supplications unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared (Heb_5:7). Thus David had prayed, and here his Son and Lord utters the same cry. This is the second Psalm which begins with a "Save me,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing,.... Which signifies not despair of mind, but difficult and distressed circumstances; the Messiah now bearing the filthy sins of his people, and the punishment of them, and so was got into the horrible pit, the mire and clay; [See comments on Psalms 40:2]; I am come into deep waters, where the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me. We had this text explained to us last Friday night, when the traveler told us he saw a man sink in the mud, almost swallowed up by it, till by a very desperate grasp of the beat he made his escape. Christ was, as it; were, sucked in by the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am weary of my crying,.... In his distress; when, bearing the punishment both of loss and sense, he cried unto God; he prayed earnestly, with great intenseness and fervency of spirit; he offered supplications, with strong cryings and tears, insomuch that he calls it a roaring: and whereas there was a seeming delay of answer to his cries, he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: He had been so long in the garden in that awful agony, with strong crying and tears.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: him now in the street being led away to Mount Calvary; a vast multitude has congregated there, all eager to see him die.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They that hate me without a cause,.... As the Jews did; see John 15:18; for he did no injury to the persons or properties of men; but went about continually doing good, both to their souls and bodies; so that he merited their highest esteem and love, and not their hatred; and yet they were his implacable enemies; see Lu 19:14; are more than the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: They have the Roman soldiers at their backs, while the mob applauds them. Psa_69:4. Then I restored that which I took not away. Christ did not take away our innocence, nor our safety, nor our honour, but he restored them all to us. He hath made us clean; he hath made us...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O God, thou knowest my foolishness,.... Not that there was real foolishness in him, who, as man, from his infancy was filled with wisdom, and increased in it; and, as Mediator, had the spirit of wisdom on him, and the treasures of wisdom in him; and, as a divine Person, he is the Wisdom of God, and the only wise God; and, as in our nature, there...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. These words are not applicable to our Lord, except so far as they may refer to our foolishness and to our sin, which we know were all laid on him; except that one commentator says that he is here speaking according to the manner of the people. They called him foolish; they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake,.... Of their expectation of redemption and salvation by the Messiah, they have been waiting upon the Lord for; when they shall see him in suffering circumstances, and even dead and laid in the grave, without any hope of his rising again; which was the case of the two...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those who seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. “Let not the shame of my cross destroy their faith; grant unto them such confidence in me that they may take up thy cross daily, and follow me: that they may even learn to say with my apostle, “God...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach,.... Being reckoned a sinner, called a deceiver, said to be a Samaritan, and to have a devil; with many other reproaches, which he bore patiently for the sake of the word and worship of God, and for the sake of the glory of God, which he all along sought; and to repair the loss of it, which was sustained...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. It was for his Father’s sake, that he might bring honour to Jehovah, that he thus suffered reproach. “Shame hath covered my face”—that face which is brighter than the sun, and which angels desire to gaze upon.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am become a stranger unto my brethren,.... Not only to the Jews in general, who were his own people and nation, to whom he came, and of whom he came; who received him not, hid as it were their faces from him, and rejected him as the Messiah; but also to such who were still nearer akin to him, according to the flesh, who did not believe in him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, “Peter says he knows me not; all of them have forsaken me.”