Psalms 69:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. ”

• Psalms 69:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  They gave me also - My enemies; all persons around me. No one would show me even so much kindness as to give me food when I was hungry, or drink when I was thirsty. They utterly forsook me; they...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  They gave. Fulfilled in Matthew 27:34 ; Matthew 27:48 ; Mark 15:23 ; Mark 15:36 ; Luke 23:36 ; John 19:28-30 . gave . put. See note on Matthew 27:34 . gall. . something bitter, probably...

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• Psalms 69:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  21. And they put gall into my meat. Here he again repeats that his enemies carry their cruelty towards him to the utmost extent in their power. He speaks metaphorically when he describes the...

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• Psalms 69:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. They gave me also gall for my meat - Even the food, necessary to preserve us in their slavery, was frequently mingl...

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• Psalms 69:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  They gave me also gall, &c.— This was only figurative in respect of David, as it is here expressed, but it was literally true of our Saviour on the cross; and therefore what follows may as trul...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Gall. — Heb., rôsh, i.e., head. (Comp. poppy heads. See Deuteronomy 32:32 .) In Hosea 10:4 it is translated hemlock, but is most probably the poppy ( papaver arenarium ), which grows eve...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  They gave me also gall for my meat ,.... Either some bitter herb mentioned with wormwood and hemlock, Deuteronomy 29:18 ; or the gall of some animal The Targum renders it, "the gall of the heads o...

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• Psalms 69:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Ver. 21. They gave me also gall for my meat ] Venenum vel eicutam; and so showed themselves miserable comfort...

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• Psalms 69:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They gave me gall for my meat Instead of affording me that pity and comfort which my condition required, they barbarously added to my affliction. These words were only metaphorically fulfilled in D...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Gall, or poison , or bitter herbs , Hosea 10:4 . See Deuteronomy 29:18 Jeremiah 9:15 Lamentations 3:19 . Instead of giving me that pity and comfort which my condition required, they bar...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 23:15 ; Jeremiah 8:14 ; Jeremiah 9:15 ; John 19:29 ; John 19:30 ; Luke 23:36 ; Mark 15:23 ; Mark 15:36 ; Matthew 27:34 ; Matthew 27:48

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• Psalms 69:21 - 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...

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• Psalms 69:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Gall — Instead of giving me that comfort which my condition required, they added to my afflictions. Vinegar — These things were metaphorically fulfilled in David, but properly in Christ, the descri...

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