I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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
I made sackcloth also my garment. This David did literally, but we have no reason to believe that Jesus did. In a spiritual sense he, as one filled with grief, was always a sackcloth wearer. And I became a proverb to them.
When afflictions enter the soul itself, not merely threatening life but disquieting the mind, the spirit becomes wounded and cannot sustain. All that David sought to prop his hope upon failed him; he sank in mire without footing, overwhelmed in deep waters, this points to Christ's inward agony when He cried that His soul was exceedingly sorrowful.
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Commenting on Psalm 69:1-12