Psalms 69 ~ Listen and Read Along

Dramatized KJV
 JV McGee
Immediately following the Psalm of return to heaven of the Lord Jesus (Psalm 68:18) is the Psalm that deals with the Lord Jesus in His sufferings. The victor of Psalm 68 turns out to be the same Person Who, as Psalm 69 shows, suffered severely 2,000 years ago. We also see this in Revelation 5, where first the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Victor, is presented, Who then turns out to be the same as the Lamb Who stands there as slain (Revelation 5:5-6). The soul of the singer pours itself out in unrestrained abandonment to the overwhelming and terrible grief which consumes it. The first half is occupied wholly with a statement of the terrible consciousness.

There is first a cry of distress, piercing and passionate (verses Psa_69:1-6). The circumstances described are of helpless whelming in waters and mire. Yet the chief agony is that God seems to be neglectful of the cry, and a fear fills the heart lest others should be harmed through what they see of the hopelessness and helplessness of his suffering. We find four prayers in this psalm, namely in 69:1; 69:6; 69:13~18; 69:22~29. The Psalm ends with a song of praise about prayer being answered. Despite all the suffering, the struggle of prayer ends in a declaration of trust in God (v. 30~36) and becomes a song of trust in God that has been tested through suffering. All the blessings described in the preceding Psalms are the result of the suffering of the Messiah described in this Psalm.

The Treasury of David

 

Save Me, O God    

Psalms 69:1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Psalms 69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psalms 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
Psalms 69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Psalms 69:6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
Psalms 69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Psalms 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Psalms 69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Psalms 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Psalms 69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Psalms 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Psalms 69:13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Psalms 69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Psalms 69:15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Psalms 69:16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Psalms 69:17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Psalms 69:18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
Psalms 69:19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Psalms 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Psalms 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
Psalms 69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Psalms 69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Psalms 69:26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Psalms 69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Psalms 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Psalms 69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Psalms 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 69:31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
Psalms 69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Psalms 69:33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Psalms 69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Psalms 69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
Psalms 69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
  
  Here again we have clearly a Messianic psalm about the suffering of the Lord Jesus. This psalm is quoted several times in the New Testament:
  • Psalm 69:5 - John 15:25
  • Psalm 69:10 - John 2:17; Romans 15:3
  • Psalm 69:22 - Matthew 27:34; Matthew 27:48; Mark 15:23; John 19:28~29
  • Psalm 69:23 - Romans 11:9
  • Psalm 69:24 - Romans 11:10
  • Psalm 69:26 - Acts 1:20
These quotes show that the book of Psalms speaks of the Lord Jesus (Luke 24:44; John 5:39).
  
  
  
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