Psalms 69:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. ”

Psalms 69:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This also shall please the Lord - This will be more acceptable to the Lord. Better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs - Better than a burnt sacrifice - horns, and hoofs, and all....
Psalms 69:31 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

[This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] (y) bullock that hath horns and hoofs. (y) There is no sacrifice which God values more than thanksgiving for his benefits.
Psalms 69:31 - 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...
Psalms 69:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

better. Praise is the truest sacrifice. an ox. See note on "song" ( Psalms 69:30 ). horns. Showing full age; not under three years ( Genesis 15:9 ). and. So some codices, with two early pr...
Psalms 69:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

31. And this will please Jehovah more than a young bullock. The more effectually to strengthen himself for this exercise, David affirms that the thanksgiving which he is about to tender, wil...
Psalms 69:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. An ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs - Oxen offered in sacrifice had their horns and hoofs gilded; an...
Psalms 69:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

This also shall please the Lord, &c.— i.e. This is the most acceptable sacrifice which can be presented to him; and this shall be used by the Christian church, instead of the sacrifices of the...
Psalms 69:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. -He resolves because of the anticipation of glorification ( Psalms 69:29 ), to praise God, and hopes that his...
Psalms 69:31 - 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...
Psalms 69:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

That hath... — Literally, showing horns and dividing the hoofs, marking at once clean animals, and those of fit age for sacrifice.
Psalms 69:31 - 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...
Psalms 69:31 - 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...
Psalms 69:31 - 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...
Psalms 69:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Christ had an eye to the glory that should be revealed, in all his sufferings. So saith the Holy Ghost; by the apostle, when he calls upon his people to be looking unto him, Hebrews 12:2 . And hence...
Psalms 69:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[This] also shall please the Lord ,.... That is, this song of praise and thanksgiving. The Targum has it, "my prayers;'' as if it retorted to Psalms 69:29 ; but what is expressed in Psalms 69:30...
Psalms 69:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 69:31 [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs. Ver. 31. This also shall please the Lord better, &c. ] True thankfulness is opimum e...
Psalms 69:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 69:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Comfort for the Persecuted; Thanksgiving and Praise. 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him...
Psalms 69:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This sincere and hearty sacrifice of praise is and shall be more grateful to God than the most glorious legal sacrifices, for so such moral services ever were, 1 Samuel 15:22 Hosea 6:6 , and suc...
Psalms 69:31 - 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...
Psalms 69:31 - 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...
Psalms 69:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving. Moral states of mind worthy of cultivation I. A noble resolution ( Psalms 69:30 ). There are many ways of prai...
Psalms 69:31 - 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...
Psalms 69:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Plea for Vengeance
Psalms 69:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:5 ; Ephesians 5:19 ; Ephesians 5:20 ; Hebrews 13:15 ; Hosea 14:2 ; Psalms 50:13 ; Psalms 50:14 ; Psalms 50:23
Psalms 69:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

This — This hearty sacrifice of praise, is more grateful to God, than the most glorious legal sacrifices. Hath horns — That is both tender and mature, as it is when the horns bud forth, and the hoo...

Psalms 69:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 69:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 69:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 69:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 69:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 69:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 69:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 69:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 69:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 69:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 69:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 69:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 69:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 69:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 69:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 69:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes