Psalm 69 Commentary
Deliver Me
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KEY THOUGHT: Deliver me out of the mire, And let me not sink; [Psalm 69:14a NKJV]
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Psalm 69 NKJV
An Urgent Plea for Help in Trouble
To the Chief Musician. Set to [a]“The Lilies.” A Psalm of David.
69 Save me, O God!
For the waters have come up to my [b]neck.
2 I sink in deep mire,
Where there is no standing;
I have come into deep waters,
Where the floods overflow me.
3 I am weary with my crying;
My throat is dry;
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 Those who hate me without a cause
Are more than the hairs of my head;
They are mighty who would destroy me,
Being my enemies wrongfully;
Though I have stolen nothing,
I still must restore it.
5 O God, You know my foolishness;
And my sins are not hidden from You.
6 Let not those who [c]wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me;
Let not those who seek You be [d]confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Shame has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers,
And an alien to my mother’s children;
9 Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,
That became my reproach.
11 I also [e]made sackcloth my garment;
I became a byword to them.
12 Those who [f]sit in the gate speak against me,
And I am the song of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to You,
O Lord, in the acceptable time;
O God, in the multitude of Your mercy,
Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire,
And let me not sink;
Let me be delivered from those who hate me,
And out of the deep waters.
15 Let not the floodwater overflow me,
Nor let the deep swallow me up;
And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.
16 Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;
Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in trouble;
Hear me speedily.
18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it;
Deliver me because of my enemies.
19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;
My adversaries are all before You.
20 Reproach has broken my heart,
And I am full of [g]heaviness;
I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none;
And for comforters, but I found none.
21 They also gave me gall for my food,
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them,
And their well-being a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see;
And make their loins shake continually.
24 Pour out Your indignation upon them,
And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their dwelling place be desolate;
Let no one live in their tents.
26 For they persecute the ones You have struck,
And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.
27 Add iniquity to their iniquity,
And let them not come into Your 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 Your 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 bull,
Which has horns and hooves.
32 The humble shall see this and be glad;
And you who seek God, your hearts shall live.
33 For the Lord hears the poor,
And does not despise His prisoners.
34 Let heaven and earth praise Him,
The seas and everything that moves in them.
35 For God will save Zion
And build the cities of Judah,
That they may dwell there and possess it.
36 Also, the [h]descendants of His servants shall inherit it,
And those who love His name shall dwell in it.
Footnotes
a. Psalm 69:1 Heb. Shoshannim
b. Psalm 69:1 Lit. soul
c. Psalm 69:6 Wait in faith
d. Psalm 69:6 dishonored
e. Psalm 69:11 Symbolic of sorrow
f. Psalm 69:12 Sit as judges
g. Psalm 69:20 Lit. sickness
h. Psalm 69:36 Lit. seed
New King James Version (NKJV)
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Psalm 69 Commentary
David uses various images to describe his sad state of affairs. He is stuck in the mud; the waters have come up to his neck; his eyes fail, looking for his God, and his throat is parched, calling out for help.
The psalmist experiences pain and suffering. And he is innocent! Strange. The theology that saints cannot experience suffering is not only strange but anti-scripture.
“Many are my enemies without cause,” says David. They hate him without reason. But I think we understand. “The insults of those who insult you fall on me.” This psalm gives us a balanced view of suffering.
The saint in the correct gear and at a good level can still experience suffering on account of his relationship with God. Suffering because righteousness is absent is normal and well understood. Suffering because righteousness is present calls for maturity and a higher level of spirituality.
Outsiders pride themselves on getting things done by themselves and for themselves by any means necessary. Laziness aside, the saint’s faith and belief that the LORD provides is a source of ridicule.
Out there, men boast about their wealth while laughing at the saint’s “non-starter” methods. It can be painful. They mock the saint’s trust in God.
“But I pray to you, Lord, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.”
Deliver me from the evil one. David seems to take up the Lord’s Prayer perfectly.
We know the psalmist is suffers for taking sides with the Creator God. He tastes what the LORD Jesus would go through at Calvary. He looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but found none. It was a lonely trip. He was given vinegar for his thirst.
But the story doesn’t end there. God’s fierce anger overtakes the God-haters. Their eyes are darkened, and their place of advantage is deserted. The smart ones aren’t smart at all.
For their malicious damage to God’s set plans, they are charged with crime upon crime. When God says yes, they say no. They persecute those who say yes. They shall not share in God’s salvation – their names blotted out of the Book of Life.
In the meantime, the psalmist decides to praise God. It is a fitting reaction to persecution. And the saint can rest secure in the hope of a renewed life. A new Garden of peace and tranquility, under the perfect throne of the Lamb of God. Evil will have been destroyed, alongside the evildoers.
An easy pick from today’s psalm is the saint’s vision of a renewed life under the perfect rule of Christ. The confusion and false success are all temporal. It will come under judgment at some point.
The saint can trust the LORD to bear him up in moments of intense trouble, but let him understand that it is the LORD’s will to subject him to this kind of life.
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