For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
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
They are cruel where they should be pitiful. These wretches hunt the wounded and vex the sick, laying bare his wounds with their rough tongues to lampoon and deride him. God takes note and will avenge His own; He may use them as a rod to His saints, but He will visit this upon the enemies of His children.
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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