{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/psa069.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/psa069.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/psa069.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nPsalms 69:1\n \npsa 69:1\nWaters - Tribulations. \nPsalms 69:4\n \npsa 69:4\nI restored - For peace sake. \nPsalms 69:5\n \npsa 69:5\nMy sins - But O Lord, although I have been innocent to mine enemies, I am guilty of many sins and follies against thee. \nPsalms 69:6\n \npsa 69:6\nFor my sake - Because of my sad disappointments. For if they see me forsaken, they will be discouraged by this example. \nPsalms 69:7\n \npsa 69:7\nFor thy sake - For my obedience to thy commands, and zeal for thy glory. \nPsalms 69:9\n \npsa 69:9\nZeal - That fervent love which I have for thy house and service, and glory, and people. Eaten - Exhausted my spirits. Upon me - I have been as deeply affected with thy reproaches, as with mine own. This tho' truly belonging to David, yet was also directed by the spirit of God in him, to represent the disposition and condition of Christ, in whom it was more fully accomplished, to whom therefore it is applied in the New Testament, the first part of it, Joh 2:17, and the latter, Rom 15:3. \nPsalms 69:10\n \npsa 69:10\nWept - For their impiety. Reproach - They derided me for it. \nPsalms 69:11\n \npsa 69:11\nProverb - A proverb of reproach. \nPsalms 69:12\n \npsa 69:12\nThat sit - Vain and idle persons, that spend their time in the gates and markets. \nPsalms 69:13\n \npsa 69:13\nIn the truth - Or, According to thy saving truth, or faithfulness; grant me that salvation, which thou hast graciously promised. \nPsalms 69:21\n \npsa 69:21\nGall - Instead of giving me that comfort which my condition required, they added to my afflictions. Vinegar - These things were metaphorically fulfilled in David, but properly in Christ, the description of whose sufferings was principally intended here by the Holy Ghost. \nPsalms 69:22\n \npsa 69:22\nTheir table - And this punishment in their table, exactly answers their sin, in giving Christ gall for his meat, Psa 69:21. A snare - Their table or meat, which is set before them, shall become a snare: the occasion of their destruction. \nPsalms 69:23\n \npsa 69:23\nEyes - Not the eyes of their bodies, but of their minds: as they that shut their eyes and will not see, so they shall be judicially blinded. To shake - To take away their strength. \nPsalms 69:26\n \npsa 69:26\nFor - Which is an act of barbarous cruelty. Talk - Reproaching them, and triumphing in their calamities. \nPsalms 69:27\n \npsa 69:27\nWilt add - Give them up to their own lusts. Not let them - Partake of thy righteousness, or of thy mercy and goodness. \nPsalms 69:28\n \npsa 69:28\nLiving - Of eternal life. \nPsalms 69:29\n \npsa 69:29\nOn high - Out of the reach of mine enemies. \nPsalms 69:31\n \npsa 69:31\nThis - 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 hoofs grow hard. \nPsalms 69:32\n \npsa 69:32\nThe humble - Those pious persons who are grieved for their calamities, will heartily rejoice in my deliverance. Live - Or, be revived, which were dejected, and in a manner dead with sorrow. \nPsalms 69:33\n \npsa 69:33\nPrisoners - Those who are in prison or affliction for his sake. \nPsalms 69:35\n \npsa 69:35\nSion - His church and people. They - His servants, as is explained in the following verse. There - In the literal Canaan for a long time, in the heavenly Canaan for ever.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 69","type":"page"}