Full Ps 69 in context. NT anchors: John 2:17 ("the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up" — applied to the temple cleansing); John 15:25 ("hated me without a cause"); Rom 15:3 ("the reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me"); Matt 27:34, 27:48 (vinegar and gall); Acts 1:20 (imprecation applied to Judas — Ps 69:25). Contested: the imprecatory verses 22–28 — how to read an imprecation as messianic. Spurgeon's Treasury has sober exposition. Founder editorial slot eligible.
Psalm 69 — Zeal, Vinegar, and Gall
**Fulfilled in First Coming.** Rejection, temple-zeal, vinegar-and-gall at the cross.
Primary passage:Psalm 69:9 →
Commentary
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John Calvin
Commentaries
1. Save me, O God! for the waters, etc. Under the figure of waters, the Psalmist represents his condition as so extremely distressing that it brought him even to the brink of despair; and yet we know that, so far from being a soft and an effeminate person, he was…
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