Salmos 69:31-36

31 Pues al Señor
esto le agradará más que el sacrificio de ganado
o que presentar un toro con cuernos y pezuñas.

32 Los humildes verán a su Dios en acción y se pondrán contentos;
que todos los que buscan la ayuda de Dios reciban ánimo.

33 Pues el Señor
oye el clamor de los necesitados;
no desprecia a su pueblo encarcelado.

34 Alábenlo el cielo y la tierra,
los mares y todo lo que en ellos se mueve.

35 Pues Dios salvará a Jerusalén
y reconstruirá las ciudades de Judá.
Su pueblo vivirá allí
y se establecerá en su propia tierra.

36 Los descendientes de quienes lo obedecen heredarán la tierra,
y los que lo aman vivirán allí seguros.

Salmos 69:31-36 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.