Psalms 69:31

That hath... — Literally, showing horns and dividing the hoofs, marking at once clean animals, and those of fit age for sacrifice.

Related Commentaries of 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 t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 C...
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 (...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Praise is the truest sacrifice: cp. Psalms 50:13 ; Psalms 50:14 . Hath horns and hoofs ] is full grown as well as ceremonially clean ( Leviticus 1...
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...
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,...
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 u...
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...
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 Psa...
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 Lor...
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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Comfort for the Persecuted; Thanksgiving and Praise. 30 I will praise...
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...
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 Psalm...
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 h...
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 resolu...
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 G...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Plea for Vengeance
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs, for all external acts of worship, without the proper devotion...
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
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 matu...

³¹ This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 69:31

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 69:31