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psalms 69:22-31

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Psalms 69:22-31

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”

— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

22. Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. 23. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24. Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25. Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents. 26. For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. 27. Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. 28. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 29. But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 31. [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

Psalms 69:22-31 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 69:22

Theological / Devotional

Let their table. Verse 22 begins a series of imprecations continuing through v. 28 (on Imprecatory Psalms, see p. 624). Paul quotes vs. 22, 23 to describe the hardened sinners of his day (see Rom. 11:8–10).

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