Salmos 69:28-36

28 Sean borrados del libro de la vida, y no sean inscritos con los justos.

29 Pero yo estoy afligido y adolorido; tu salvación, oh Dios, me ponga en alto.

30 Con cántico alabaré el nombre de Dios, y con acción de gracias le exaltaré.

31 Y esto agradará al SEÑOR más que el sacrificio de un buey, o de un novillo con cuernos y pezuñas.

32 Esto han visto los humildes y se alegran. Viva vuestro corazón, los que buscáis a Dios.

33 Porque el SEÑOR oye a los necesitados, y no menosprecia a los suyos que están presos.

34 Alábenle los cielos y la tierra, los mares y todo lo que en ellos se mueve.

35 Porque Dios salvará a Sion y edificará las ciudades de Judá, para que ellos moren allí y la posean.

36 Y la descendencia de sus siervos la heredará, y los que aman su nombre morarán en ella.

Salmos 69:28-36 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Of the word "shoshannim," See Gill on "Ps 45:1," title. The Targum renders it, "concerning the removal of the sanhedrim;" which was about the time of Christ's death. The Talmudists {t} say, that forty years before the destruction of the temple, the sanhedrim removed, they removed from the paved chamber, &c. But it can hardly be thought that David prophesied of this affair; nor of the captivity of the people of Israel, as the Targum, Aben Ezra, Kimchi, Arama, and R. Obadiah interpret it: and so Jarchi takes the word "shoshannim" to signify lilies, and applies it to the Israelites, who are as a lily among thorns. But not a body of people, but a single person, is spoken of, and in sorrowful and suffering circumstances; and, if the Jews were not blind, they might see that they are the enemies of the person designed, and the evil men from whom he suffered so much. And indeed what is said of him cannot be said of them, nor of any other person whatever but the Messiah: and that the psalm belongs to Christ, and to the times of the Gospel, is abundantly evident from the citations out of it in the New Testament; as

Psalm 69:4 in John 15:25;
Psalm 69:9 in John 2:17;
Psalm 69:21 in Matthew 27:34;
Psalm 69:22 in Romans 11:9;
Psalm 69:25 in Acts 1:16.

The inscription of the psalm in the Syriac version is, "'a psalm' of David, according to the letter, when Shemuah (Sheba), the son of Bichri, blew a trumpet, and the people ceased from following after him (David); but the prophecy is said concerning those things which the Messiah suffered, and concerning the rejection of the Jews." And Aben Ezra interprets Psalm 69:36 of the days of David, or of the days of the Messiah.

{t} T. Bab. Avoda Zara, fol. 8. 2. & Roshhashanah, fol. 31. 1, 2.