Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
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
Reproach is a hammer that breaks the heart. Our Lord died of a broken heart, and slander lacerated it till it broke. He was filled with misery to the brim, yet among ten thousand foes not one was touched by His suffering, not one spoke Him a kindly word. His dearest friends sought their own safety and left Him alone on that dark night when the powers of darkness had their hour.
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His enemies mocked him for fasting and praying, even made him the drunkard's song; yet he resolves to keep praying. Let no scoff or hard word jeer you out of your duty to God. While they rely on insolence and slander, he lodges his cause with the Lord, and affliction makes such prayers all the more acceptable to Him.
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Commenting on Psalm 69:13-21