“ I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. ”
I made sackcloth also my garment - I put on sackcloth. This was often done as expressive of grief and sorrow. See Psalms 30:11 , note; Psalms 35:13 , note. Compare Isaiah 22:12 ; Daniel 9:3 ....
LXIX. A Prayer for Deliverance and Revenge. The author was a pious Jew, burning with zeal for the purity of the Temple worship ( Psalms 69:9 ). He was a representative man, so that the reproaches o...
sackcloth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for mourning attire. proverb. Compare John 8:48 ; Matthew 27:63 .
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. -He appeals in support of his prayer to God's knowledge that he suffers reproach and estrangement, as if he were foolish...
This whole Ps. should be compared with Psalms 22:31 , 35, 38,, 40. It is the prayer of one who is in deep distress, wrongfully persecuted by enemies, and conscious that, though he is sinful, his suf...
Psalms 69:1-36 THE Davidic authorship of this psalm is evidently untenable, if for no other reason, yet because of the state of things presupposed in Psalms 69:35 . The supposition that Jeremiah...
a Cry out of Deep Waters Psalms 69:1-17 This psalm and the Psalms 22:1-31 are quoted most often in the New Testament as referring to our Lord. Psalms 69:1-36 is very sad. Throughout we dete...
Perhaps in no psalm in the whole psalter is the sense of sorrow profounder or more intense than in this. The soul of the singer pours itself out in unrestrained abandonment to the overwhelming and te...
Oh! how precious are these words of our Christ! And how were they all fulfilled in his own sacred person! When he came to his own, his own received him not. And was not Jesus treated worse than a str...
I made sackcloth also my garment ,.... Though we nowhere read that Jesus put on sackcloth upon any occasion, yet it is not improbable that he did; besides, the phrase may only intend that he mourned...
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. Ver. 11. I made sackcloth also my garment ] A fashion at solemn fasts among the Easterlings; as if they thought the coarsest cloth...
When I wept For their impiety, and the reproaches they cast upon God and godliness; and chastened my soul with fasting That is, either my body or myself; that was my reproach They derided me fo...
Complaints and Petitions. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim. A psalm of David. 1 Save me, O God; for the water...
My garment; wearing it next to my skin, in token of my humiliation and hearty sorrow, as the manner then was in days of fasting. A proverb to them; they used my name proverbially of any person wh...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, a Psalm of David.” “ To the chief musician .” See the introduction to Psalms 57 . “ Upon Shoshannim . See the introduction to...
We shall read together at this time a part of the 69 th Psalm, and afterwards two passages in the New Testament. Although there is no doubt that this Psalm is intended to describe a very large clas...
The Chaldee paraphrase ascribes this psalm to David, and with great care regards it as highly prophetic of the Messiah. St. Paul therefore knew the high authority he had, in quoting it against the Je...
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. Human suffering I. Man’s sufferings are sometimes overwhelmingly great. This shows-- 1. The abnormal state of man. Was man made to su...
EXPOSITION THIS is the cry of one suffering severely from men, partly on account of his own sins ( Psalms 69:5 ), but mainly for the sake of God ( Psalms 69:7-19 ). It is said to be "written i...
The Messiah's Vicarious Suffering. To the chief musician, for use in the public assembly of the congregation, upon Shoshannim, to be sung to the melody "On the Lilies. " The psalm is referred to s...
1 Kings 9:7 ; Deuteronomy 28:37 ; Isaiah 20:2 ; Isaiah 22:12 ; Jeremiah 24:9 ; Joel 1:13 ; Joel 1:8 ; Psalms 35:13 ; Psalms 35:14 ; Psalms 44:13 ; Psalms 44:14
The Psalm of the Trespass Offering Psalms 69:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The 69th Psalm, which we are to study today, is one of those great Calvary Psalms which stir our souls. Like other Psalms t...
Proverb — A proverb of reproach.