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Psalm 69:21-23
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 69:21-23
New Catholic Bible
21 Insults have so broken my heart
that I am near the end of my strength.
I looked for compassion, but in vain,
for some consolers, but I found none.[a]
22 They put gall in my food,
and in my thirst they gave me vinegar[b] to drink.
23 [c]Let their table become a trap for them;
let their well-being become a snare.[d]
Footnotes
- Psalm 69:21 I looked for . . . consolers, but I found none: see Job 6:14ff; 16:2; Lam 1:2; and in reference to Jesus, see Mt 26:40; Jn 16:32.
- Psalm 69:22 Gall . . . vinegar: the evangelists suggest that the sufferings of the psalmist as described in this verse foreshadowed the sufferings of Jesus on the cross (see Mt 27:34, 48; Mk 15:23; Lk 23:36; Jn 19:29).
- Psalm 69:23 Prayer for divine justice to prevail (see notes on Pss 5:11; 35).
- Psalm 69:23 These two verses are applied by Paul to the divine hardening of sinners’ hearts that God allows (see Rom 11:9f). Table: a single tablecloth spread on the ground; hence the possibility of tripping over it.
