“ But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. ”
But I am poor and sorrowful - I am afflicted and suffering. The word here rendered “poor” often means “afflicted.” Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high - Let thy help raise me up from...
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...
poor . afflicted. Hebrew. ani . See note on Proverbs 6:11 . Not the same word as in Psalms 69:33 . Constantly used of Christ in the Psalms. Compare Psalms 22:24 (afflicted); Psalms 34:6 ; Psa...
29. As for me, I am poor and sorrowful. (97) From this verse we perceive more distinctly how David cast away from him the swelling and raging passion of those who, with ungovernable fury, p...
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. I am poor and sorrowful - Literally, I an laid low, and full of pain or grief. Hence the prayer, "Let thy salvation, O God...
But I am poor and sorrowful— But as for me, though I am low and full of pain, thy salvation, O God, shall protect me. See Bishop Hare and Mudge.
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high - or rather, 'thy salvation shall set me upo...
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...
Set me up on high. — Or , lift me up, i.e., into a secure place out of the reach of enemies.
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...
“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...
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...
Here is another engaging portrait of Jesus. And who of his redeemed but must love him, both on his cross and on his throne?
But I [am] poor and sorrowful ,.... The Messiah was poor in a literal sense, as it was foretold he should, Zechariah 9:9 ; so he was in his private life; born of poor parents, and brought up in a m...
But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. Ver. 29. But I am poor and sorrowful ] The Church is usually so, and may sing, as here, Vaani gnani, &c., but h...
But I am poor , &c. Bishop Hare reads it, “But as for me, though I am low and full of pain,” (Hebrew, כואב, choeeb; rendered, in the plural, they were sore, Genesis 34:25 ,) “thy salvati...
Pleading with God; Prophetic Imprecations. 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have b...
Out of the reach of mine enemies; or, lift me out of the deep waters, and the mire, in which I was sinking, Psalms 69:14 .
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...
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...
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...
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...
Plea for Vengeance
2 Corinthians 8:9 ; Ephesians 1:21 ; Ephesians 1:22 ; Isaiah 53:2 ; Isaiah 53:3 ; Matthew 8:20 ; Philippians 2:9-11 ; Psalms 109:22 ; Psalms 109:31 ; Psalms 18:48 ; Psalms 22:27-31 ; Psal...
On high — Out of the reach of mine enemies.