Sálmarnir 69:26

Heilögum Biblíunni

26 (69:27) því að þann sem þú hefir lostið, ofsækja þeir og auka þjáningar þeirra er þú hefir gegnumstungið.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For: Psalms 109:16, 2 Chronicles 28:9, Job 19:21, Job 19:22, Zechariah 1:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:15

whom: Isaiah 53:4, Isaiah 53:10, Zechariah 13:7

they talk: Mark 15:28-32

those: etc. Heb. thy wounded

Reciprocal: Judges 16:25 - sport 2 Samuel 16:5 - cursed Job 16:2 - miserable Job 19:28 - Why Job 24:12 - wounded Job 30:13 - they set forward Isaiah 47:6 - wroth Mark 15:29 - they Luke 23:35 - derided Philippians 1:16 - supposing

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten,.... Meaning the Messiah, who was not only smitten and scourged by men, but was stricken and smitten of God; according to his determinate counsel and foreknowledge, and agreeably to his will and plea sure; with the rod of his justice for the satisfaction of it; for the sins of his people, whose surety he was. Him the Jews followed with reproaches and calumnies; pursued after his life, and persecuted him unto death; and which was the cause of their ruin and destruction; see 1 Thessalonians 2:15;

and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded; or, "of thy wounded ones" l; not wounded by him, but wounded for his sake, on his account, and for their profession of faith in his son Jesus Christ. These, as they were led to the slaughter, had trial of cruel mockings, which aggravated their sufferings, and were very grieving to them; especially such talk as reflected upon their dear Redeemer, for whose sake they were put to death.

l חלליך "vulneratorum tuorum", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Musculus; so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten - That is, instead of pitying one who is afflicted of God, or showing compassion for him, they “add” to his sorrows by their own persecutions. The psalmist was suffering as under the hand of God. He needed sympathy from others in his trials. Instead of that, however, he found only reproaches, opposition, persecution, calumny. There was an entire want of sympathy and kindness. There was a disposition to take advantage of the fact that he was suffering at the hand of God, to increase his sorrows in all ways in which they could do it.

And they talk to the grief of those - What they say adds to their sorrow. They speak of the character of those who are afflicted; they allege that the affliction is the punishment of some crime which they have committed; they take advantage of any expressions of impatience which they may let fall in their affliction to charge them with being of a rebellious spirit, or regard it as proof that they are destitute of all true piety. See the notes at Psalms 41:5-8. It was this which added so much to the affliction of Job. His professed friends, instead of sympathizing with him, endeavored to prove that the fact that he suffered so much at the hand of God demonstrated that he was a hypocrite; and the expressions of impatience which he uttered in his trial, instead of leading them to sympathize with him, only tended to confirm them in this belief.

Whom thou hast wounded - literally, as in the margin, “thy wounded.” That is, of those whom “thou” hast afflicted. The reference is to the psalmist himself as afflicted by God, while, at the same time, he makes the remark general by saying that this was their character; this was what they were accustomed to do.