Salmos 69:6-16

6 ¡No se averguencen de mí los que en ti esperan, oh Señor, DIOS de los ejércitos! ¡No sean humillados por mí los que te buscan, oh Dios de Israel!

7 Pues por amor de ti he sufrido vituperio; la ignominia ha cubierto mi rostro.

8 Me he convertido en extraño para mis hermanos, y en extranjero para los hijos de mi madre.

9 Porque el celo por tu casa me ha consumido, y los vituperios de los que te injurian han caído sobre mí.

10 Cuando lloraba afligiendo con ayuno mi alma, eso se convirtió en afrenta para mí.

11 Cuando hice de cilicio mi vestido, me convertí en proverbio para ellos.

12 Hablan de mí los que se sientan a la puerta, y soy la canción de los borrachos.

13 Pero yo elevo a ti mi oración, oh SEÑOR, en tiempo propicio; oh Dios, en la grandeza de tu misericordia, respóndeme con tu verdad salvadora.

14 Sácame del cieno y no me dejes hundir; sea yo librado de los que me odian, y de lo profundo de las aguas.

15 No me cubra la corriente de las aguas, ni me trague el abismo, ni el pozo cierre sobre mí su boca.

16 Respóndeme, oh SEÑOR, pues buena es tu misericordia; vuélvete a mí, conforme a tu inmensa compasión,

Salmos 69:6-16 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.