But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
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
But I am poor and sorrowful. The psalmist was afflicted very much, but his faith was in God. The poor in spirit and mourners are both blessed under the gospel, so that here is a double reason for the Lord to smile on his suppliant.
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