Psalms 69:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Psalms 69:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Reproach hath broken my heart - The reproaches, the calumnies, the aspersions, the slanders of others, have crushed me. I am not able to bear up under them; I fail under the burden. Distress may...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and (q) I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none. (q) He shows men that it is vain to p...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  some. Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "one".

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  20. Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am afflicted. He expresses more distinctly not only that he was confounded, or ashamed at the sad aspect which he presented of having been deserted,...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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.

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Reproach hath broken my heart— Dr. Delaney observes, that there were two circumstances of distress which attended upon David's fall, not sufficiently considered, though they are beyond all question...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. -Again he appeals to God's knowledge of his reproach and suffering from his foes, as the grou...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I am full of heaviness. — Rather, I am sick. The word here used (with its cognates), as well as that rendered pity in the next clause, are favourite words with Jeremiah, as also are the figures...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Jehovah Heareth the Needy” Psalms 69:18-36 In Psalms 69:19-21 the psalmist again spreads out his griefs before God. He had looked for pity, but his foes only aggravated his sufferings. Both...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Reader! if you are much acquainted with the evangelists accounts of Jesus's sufferings in the garden and on the cross (and if you are not, it is much to be wished that you were) you will see how all...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Reproach hath broken my heart ,.... This was his case when his soul was exceeding sorrowful unto death, and his heart like wax melted in the midst of his bows is, Matthew 26:38 ; and I am full of...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 20. Reproach hath broken mine hear...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou hast known my reproach , &c. Thou seest how much of it I suffer, and that for thy sake. Mine adversaries are all before thee Thou knowest them thoroughly, and all their injurious and wick...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Complaints and Petitions.       13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O L ORD , in an acceptable time: O God, in the...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Hath broken my heart: for reproach is most grievous to the most generous and noble souls; and besides, this was the highest degree and the worst kind of reproach, being cast upon him for God's sake...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But as for me, my prayer is unto Thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time. The compassionable, commendable, and censurable I. The compassionable. The representation which the author here gives of hi...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Timothy 4:16 ; 2 Timothy 4:17 ; Hebrews 11:36 ; Isaiah 63:5 ; Job 16:2 ; Job 19:21 ; Job 19:22 ; John 12:27 ; John 16:32 ; Mark 14:37 ; Mark 14:50 ; Matthew 26:37 ; Matthew 26:38 ; Ma...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 69:20 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

  Read the comments