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Commentaries on Psalms 69:8

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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 sanhedrim removed, they removed from the paved chamber,...

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, John 7:5; and even in some sense to his disciples...

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 and succour him, and would do well for the church,...

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.”

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And an alien unto my mother’s children. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. Every hard word that was spoken of the Father fell upon the Son: the iniquities which were rebellions against Jehovah all fell upon the Man of Nazareth.