Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
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
Unbelievers will add sin to sin, and so punishment to punishment. To leave men alone to fill up the measure of their iniquity is most equitable, but terribly awful; those who choose evil and hate divine mercy shall have their choice, shut out from His righteousness unless sovereign grace breaks in.
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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