Psalms 69:20
Insult has broken my heart, past cure are my shame and confusion. For pity I looked – there was none! And for comforters, but I found none.
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In Context
19You know how I am insulted; in your sight are all my foes.
21Poison they gave me for food, and to slake my thirst they gave vinegar.
Cross References
Psalms 42:10It pierces me to the heart to hear the enemy’s taunts, as all the day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 142:4I look to the right and the left; but not a friend have I. No place of refuge is left me, not a man to care for me.
Matthew 26:37Taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to show signs of sadness and deep distress of mind.
Mark 14:37Then he came and found the three apostles asleep. “Simon,” he said to Peter, “are you asleep? Couldn’t you watch for one hour?
John 12:27Now I am distressed at heart and what can I say? Father, bring me safe through this hour – yet it was for this reason that I came to this hour –
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:14-22
Complaints and Petitions. 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. 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. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16 Hear me, O Lord ; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy… Read the whole commentary →