Sálmarnir 69:29

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29 (69:30) En ég er volaður og þjáður, hjálp þín, ó Guð, mun bjarga mér.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I am poor: Psalms 40:17, Psalms 109:22, Psalms 109:31, Isaiah 53:2, Isaiah 53:3, Matthew 8:20, 2 Corinthians 8:9

let thy: Psalms 18:48, Psalms 22:27-31, Psalms 89:26, Psalms 89:27, Psalms 91:14-16, Ephesians 1:21, Ephesians 1:22, Philippians 2:9-11

Reciprocal: Psalms 22:24 - For Psalms 70:5 - I am Psalms 109:21 - But do Proverbs 29:25 - safe Matthew 5:4 - General Acts 4:24 - they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I [am] poor and sorrowful,.... The Messiah was poor in a literal sense, as it was foretold he should, Zechariah 9:9; so he was in his private life; born of poor parents, and brought up in a mean way: and in his public life, having no certain dwelling place, and ministered to by others; and when on the cross, being stripped of his garments; and nothing to eat and drink but gall and vinegar; and nothing to leave to his mother, but commits her to the care of his beloved disciple. Though this phrase in general may denote the low estate of Christ in his humiliation, being in the form of a servant, humbled and obedient to death; and the character of "sorrowful" well agrees with him, who was a man of sorrows all his days; and in the garden his soul was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; and when on the cross he had sorrow enough; what with the sins of his people on him, the flouts and jeers of his enemies at him; the pains of body he endured, the wrath of God, the hidings of his face, and the curses of his righteous law. After this declaration of his low and distressed state, a petition follows:

let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high: meaning either the salvation of the Lord's people, so called, because concerted and appointed of God, and is what he sent his Son to effect, and he approves of; this being wrought out was the way and, means of the exaltation of Christ; both by his divine Father, who on this account exalted him at his right hand; and by his people, who exalt him in their hearts, and with their tongues, and give him all the glory of their salvation. Or else this means the salvation of Christ out of the hands of all his enemies, whom he conquered on the cross; and particularly death, from which he was saved by his resurrection, and was the first step to his exaltation and glory; after which he ascended on high, and sat down at the right hand of God; where no mere creature, angels or men, were ever admitted; and where angels, principalities, and powers, are subject to him. The whole may be rendered thus; "though I am poor and sorrowful, thy salvation, O God, will set me up on high" o; and so is expressive of the Messiah's faith in his resurrection and exaltation, notwithstanding his sorrows and sufferings; on account of which he determines to praise the Lord, as follows.

o תשגבני "elevabit me", Pagninus, Montanus; so Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But I am poor and sorrowful - I am afflicted and suffering. The word here rendered “poor” often means “afflicted.”

Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high - Let thy help raise me up from my low condition, and exalt me to a place of safety.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 69:29. I am poor and sorrowful — Literally, I an laid low, and full of pain or grief. Hence the prayer, "Let thy salvation, O God set me on high!" My oppression has laid me low; thy salvation shall make me high!