Psalms 69

Now when we are tender of his glory by laying to heart his dishonors, this is a glorifying of him. An ingenuous child weeps to see a disgrace done to his father (Psalm 69:9): The reproaches of them that reproach you are fallen upon me. When we hear God reproached, it is as if we…

Mercies for the poor (1 Samuel 2:8): He raises the poor out of the dust. Mercies for the prisoner (Psalm 69:33): He despises not his prisoners. Mercies for the dejected (Isaiah 54:8): In a little wrath I hid my face from you, but with great mercies will I gather you.

Kind, loving words should be spoken to such as are of a heavy heart (Job 6:14). To him that is afflicted, pity should be shown. Healing words are fittest for a broken heart; but that is a cruel, unmerciful tongue which speaks such words to the afflicted, as cut them to the heart…

1. We prefer the honor of God's name before our own credit. The saints of old have for the honor of God been willing to endure reproach (Psalm 69:7): For your sake I have borne reproach. David cared not what reproach he suffered, so God's name might not suffer.

Object. But I have prayed a long time for mercy, and have no answer (Psalm 69:3)? I am weary of crying?

Luther was called, A Trumpeter of Rebellion. David calls reproach an heart-breaking (Psalm 69:20); this God lets his dear saints be oft exercised with. Dirt may be cast upon a pearl; those names may be blotted which are written in the Book of Life.

If in those shallows of outward troubles which are common to man his faith could not find footing, but he was well-nigh carried away with the common stream and error of wicked men to have condemned himself and the generation of the righteous (verse 15) — how would his faith have…

And 6. Hereon occasionally fell out the ruin of that people; their table became a snare to them, and that which should have been for their welfare, became a trap, according to the prediction of our Savior (Psalm 69:22). It was this covenant that raised and ruined them, it raised…

When men said to David, Where is now your God? or what is become of your religion and profession, your pretended trust in God? he says, it was a killing sword in his bones, it pierced deep and pained greatly (Psalm 42:10). And it is spoken in the person of our Savior, Reproaches…

The first thing wherein they suffered was reproaches, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], a great aggravation of sufferings to ingenuous minds. The Psalmist in the person of the Lord Christ himself complains that reproaches had broken his heart (Psalm 69:20). And elsewhere, frequently…

If it be him you seek; it is from a liking of, and a love to him. 2. This love appears sometimes, in that they are so deeply sensible of it, when they see any wrong offered to the Lord, his name, ways, people, or institutions (Psalm 69:9). And that this is from love to God, and…

As for them in 1 John 2:19, of whom it is said, They went out from us, but they were not of us, &c. why may not this going out be understood of a local departure, or of a departing from the company, and communion of the saints, and such duties and acts of love as that church-rel…

2. We desire that a zeal of God's glory may be kindled in our hearts, and that we may be kept from profaning and abusing of his name. Psalm 69:9: The zeal of your house has eaten me up. Psalm 45:1: My heart shall utter, or cast up a good matter.

1. That interest in God will beget a zeal for God: it troubles a good man to see any one wronged, much more to see his own relation wronged, most of all to see his God wronged: can a man profess love to God, and not espouse his quarrel? Friends have all things common, common lov…

A zeal for God's glory. The zeal of your house has eaten me up (Psalm 69:9). My heart shall utter, or cast up a good matter; I will speak in my works of the king (Psalm 45:1).

And the Scriptures represent the last struggles and changes that shall immediately precede this event, as being the greatest of all; as the last pangs of a woman in travail are the most violent. The creature thus earnestly expecting this glorious manifestation and liberty of the…

Psalms 24:6: "This is the generation of them that seek him." Psalms 69:32: "Your heart shall live that seek God." And in many other places.

So Job's afflictions came on him in a growing way. David, (Psalm 69:2) I sink in the deep mire, where there is no standing. I wade on deeper and deeper, till I lose ground and bottom.

How much love for extension, and intention: for one man, and every one in covenant (Psalm 106:45), multitudes of mercies, and (Psalm 130:7) plentiful redemption. One David must have multitude of tender mercies (Psalm 51:1), (Psalm 69:13, 16). It's not one love, but loves, many l…

I answer, I speak as my subject leads me: It will put the point generally — Satan makes an advantage of our condition. Christ had power to do what was suggested; every condition has its snares, a full condition most of all (Psalm 69:22). Let their table be a snare, their welfare…

Habakkuk must wait because the vision is for a time appointed (Habakkuk 2:1). David's eyes and strength failed in waiting on God (Psalm 69:3). Daniel waits on God 70 years, and then prays for deliverance out of captivity, the time being expired.

This must teach us to be content, if after much praying, we find not the fruit of our prayers: because there is an appointed time for the accomplishing of them. In this respect David says, that his eyes failed, and he was hoarse in praying (Psalm 69:4). The second question is, w…

God requires this importunity of us (Luke 18:1). It is practiced by David (Psalm 69:4), by the woman of Canaan (Matthew 15). We must do as Jacob did, wrestle with God, and give him no rest till he fulfills the desires of our hearts, and gives us the blessing.

And they are said to fall from grace, not because all were indeed under the favor of God, and at length cast out of it: but because God makes it manifest to men that they were never in the favor of God. Thus Christ's enemies are said to be blotted out of the book of life (Psalm…

The dumb and senseless creatures may set us to school in this point: for they expect with a fervent desire to be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (Romans 8:19-20), and as the word signifies, they expect with a longing desire,…

For this place must not be expounded like the former, wherein he expressed and set forth the sorrow and heaviness of foreign nations: But in regard he speaks here of the afflictions of the Church of which himself was a member, he has good cause to mourn in good earnest, and to c…

For he, having omitted the regard of himself, gave himself wholly to this. For in him is truly verified whatever the Prophet says (Psalm 69:10). And among other things, he also puts this down, that the zeal of the Lord has even eaten him up.

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Psalm 69 verse 6. Let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake.

This recompenses the delay, and payes us for all the expences of our patience. But though there be such weighty reasons for the stop and delay of refreshing comfortable Providences; yet we cannot bear it, our hands hang down and we faint, Psalm 69:3 I am weary of my crying, my t…

Your betters have waited long upon God for mercy, and why should not you? David waited till his eyes failed, Psalm 69. 3 The Church waited for him in the way of his judgements, Isaiah 26:8 Are you better than all the saints that are gone before you? Is God more obliged to you th…

To others nothing is sanctified either as an Instrument or occasion of any spiritual good; but as the worst things are ordered to the benefit of the saints, so the best things wicked men enjoy do them no good. Their prayers are turned into sin, Psalm 109:7 The Ordinances are the…

Now there is this rule which divines give: that those prayers which were made by David are rather prophecies of what should be than mere prayers that this might be. As David prayed against the Jews in Psalm 69:22, that their table might be a snare to them, and that they should a…

That is: Destroy my name from among men, and do not protect me any longer. Again, they object that in Psalm 69:28, it is said, Let them be blotted out of the book of life. Now, say they, that is God's election, and to be blotted out, implies, that a man may be elected, and yet p…

Psalm 68. Psalm 69. Psalm 72.

Be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another (1 Peter 3:8) — these are Apostolic rules for, and trials of Gospel love. It was a sad condition that David was in; and it was a very sinful condition that others about him were in, when he says (Psalm 69:20), I looked for…

The word takes in also wronging with the tongue (Jeremiah 18:18): "Come, let us smite Jeremiah with the tongue": and it is likely, by the words following in that verse, the profane priests had no little role in it. 3. They wound her: this is a further step, and implies such a sm…

The second step or degree of this love, and the similitude illustrating it, is in these words, jealousy is cruel as the grave: it is the prosecution of the same purpose, only, what she called love before, is here termed jealousy; jealousy may be taken in a good sense, or an evil…

These are your zealous ones (2 Peter 3:3): In the last days there shall be scoffers. Holy walking is become the object of derision (Psalm 69:12): I am become the song of the drunkards. This shows a vile heart.

If we draw near to God with repenting hearts, he will draw near to us with a compassionate heart. David prayed (Psalm 69:18): Draw near to my soul. It is good to have God draw near to us.

And hence so much sin [illegible] remains in the godly, so much foolishness there abides with them. This the Psalmist confesses of himself (Psalms 69:5): "O God, you know my foolishness." Every time a person commits any sin, he has just reason to say of himself, as he (1 Samuel…

Ass. 2. There is sometime much seeking of Christ, and no finding (Canticles 3:1, 2), for a time: Magdalen is early up in the morning, and finds for the present, in lieu of Christ, an empty grave, and grave-cloaths only. There is much crying to God, and for the time no hearing (P…

Ophni and Phinehas are publicly zealous for the Lord; Moses meek in the injury done to him by Miriam, and by Korah and Dathan, and his, is fiery against the golden calf in the Lord's cause. Hence influences from God set them a work, and eat them up as zeal for the Lord's house e…

2. Our great ones are so far above the blood, the cries and sufferings of the needy; let the poor die in the pit, they have a higher employment than to lend their heart to lodge thoughts of compassion toward the afflicted (Amos 6:1, 2, 3, 4). Greatness despises the desolation of…

Whether in his real helping and hearing, my crying out of the deeps, or on his saving actings upon the dead heart, and in his word do I hope: there may be a casting of the goods in the sea to help the ship to land. There is failing of the eyes in waiting for God (Psalm 69:3; Psa…

3. Puts him to learn by experience new things to day, and to will and decree them fixedly in time, concerning which yesterday and before the world was, he was not fixed in his will to do determinatly any thing, for fear of fatal necessity. For 4. God had either fixed a decree co…

As at another time, when his own followers spoke of stoning him, though he could not still the tumult of his troops, he could those of his spirits, for then he encouraged himself in the Lord his God (1 Samuel 30:6). As to those prayers against his enemies, which we find in some…

That the Lord Jesus, who so loved the world, is so much hated and despised by the world. The reproaches of them who thus reproach our master, if we be his faithful servants we should feel as falling upon us (Psalm 69:10; Matthew 25:45). And if he take what is said and done again…

Fourthly, not appearing, is a betraying the truth: It is a speech of Zuinglius, in his third Epistle; We may as well with Dioclesian, worship at the Altar of Jupiter or Venus, as hide our faith under Antichrist: He that is not with me, is against me, says Christ. Fifthly, Christ…

If reproaches and sufferings be the reproaches of Christ, Christ is engaged in them more then you; there may be many branches of comfort to Gods people from hence, That Christ is so engaged in all their sufferings, as they are accounted Christs own: it is a great matter, when an…

Contentions and Wounds are the ordinary effects of drunken meetings: when Reason is deposed, and Lust heated, what will not men attempt? (2.) Scoff and reproaches of the ways and people of God. Psalm 69:12. David was the Song of the Drunkards. (3.) It's the great incendiary of L…