Psalms 69 — They Gave Me Also Gall For My Meat
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head. The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Let their habitation be desolate. I will praise the name of God with a song.
“For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.”
— Psalm 69:9
- v.1-12 Reproach for God's sake
- v.13-28 Cry for deliverance
- v.29-36 Song of praise
Fulfilled at the cross (Matthew 27:34, John 19:29). The psalm scripted the soldiers' offering.
Another prophetic detail of the crucifixion. The psalm is a quiet companion to the gospel narratives.
Psalm 69 reads alongside the passion narratives. The psalmist's suffering anticipates Christ's; the chapter's prayer becomes His prayer.
Psalm 69 is a passion psalm. Christ's zeal, His reproach, His gall and vinegar — all are here a thousand years before they happened.
Quoted in John 2:17 about Christ's cleansing of the temple. The psalm anticipates the Saviour's zeal.
Reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. Christ bore the insults aimed at God.