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 for my piety and devotion, and for my faith in God's promises and hopes of assistance from him. I made sackcloth also my garment In token of my humiliation and hearty sorrow, as the manner then was in days of fasting. I became a proverb to them They used my name proverbially of any person whom they thought to be vainly and foolishly religious. They that sit in the gate That is, as it is generally interpreted, the judges and magistrates, the gates of cities being the places of judicature. But it seems better to agree with the design of the psalmist, and to suit with the next clause, to suppose that he rather meant vain and idle persons, that spent their time in the gates and markets; or such as begged at the gates of the city, as St. Hilary interprets it. And I was the song of the drunkards Of the scum of the people; of all lewd and debauched persons.
Related Commentaries of Psalms 69:10
Psalms 69:10-12
10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.c