Salmos 69:5-15

5 Dios, tú sabes mi locura; y mis delitos no te son ocultos.

6 No sean avergonzados por mi causa los que te esperan, oh Señor DIOS de los ejércitos; no sean confusos por mí los que te buscan, oh Dios de Israel.

7 Porque por ti he sufrido afrenta; confusión ha cubierto mi rostro.

8 He sido extrañado de mis hermanos, y extraño a los hijos de mi madre.

9 Porque me consumió el celo de tu Casa; y los denuestos de los que te vituperaban, cayeron sobre mí.

10 Y lloré con ayuno de mi alma; y me has sido por afrenta.

11 Puse además cilicio por mi vestido; y vine a serles por proverbio.

12 Hablaban contra mí los que se sentaban a la puerta, y me zaherían en las canciones de los bebedores de sidra.

13 Pero yo enderezaba mi oración a ti, oh SEÑOR, al tiempo de la buena voluntad. Oh Dios, por la multitud de tu misericordia, por la verdad de tu salud, óyeme.

14 Sácame del lodo, y no sea yo anegado; sea yo libertado de los que me aborrecen, y de lo profundo de las aguas.

15 No me anegue el ímpetu de las aguas, ni me absuerba la hondura, ni el pozo cierre sobre mí su boca.

Salmos 69:5-15 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.