Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.
David here resembles the twenty-second psalm in lamenting the cruelty of his enemies, though we cannot fix which persecution occasioned it, Saul's or Absalom's. Yet the New Testament quotes it of Christ at least seven times, making clear it is prophetic of Him. David's affliction did not shake his trust in God or weaken his holy conduct; rather, his zeal for God's glory provoked the world's hatred against him.
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Commenting on Psalm 69:1-36
Let their table become a snare before them. There they laid snares, and there they shall find them. From their feasts they would afford nothing but wormwood for their innocent victim, and now their banquets shall be their ruin. It is very easy for the daily provisions of mercy to become temptations to sin.
These are not David's prayers but prophecies of Christ's persecutors, especially the Jewish nation that rejected Him. The apostle himself applies these verses to the judgment God brought upon unbelieving Jews, justifying the gospel by the very destruction of the temple and all who clung to the Mosaic economy against Christ.
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Commenting on Psalm 69:22-29