Psalms 89:50 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I, i.e. we thy servants, as he now said; our king and his people; of whom he speaks as of one person, as is very usual in Holy Scripture. Or the psalmist showeth how particularly and passionately he resented those reproaches which were cast upon their king and kingdom, as if they were east upon himself. Bear in my bosom: this phrase may denote either, first, the multitude of these reproaches, things being said to be given or received into a man's bosom, which are given or received in great plenty, as Isaiah 65:6 Luke 6:38; or, secondly, their grievousness, that they pierced him to the very heart, which is sometimes called the bosom, as Ecclesiastes 7:9. Of all the mighty people; of the great potentates and princes of the world, who now reproached the house of David with their vain and confident boasting of the everlastingness of their kingdom, which was now in a desperate and lost condition. Or, all the reproaches of many people.

Psalms 89:50

50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;