Psalms 69:21
+ 69:21 a MP: Messiah has gall offered him as food. Gall is a medicinal poison; poisons have a bitter taste and acids, like vinegar, have a sour taste. This mixture has various English simile terms: poisoned water, mixed drink with serpent poison, drinking viper’s poison (Deut 32:32-33; Jer 9:15, 23:15). Gall is a mixture of liver or gallbladder digestive juice, called bile, possibly mixed with poppy seed opium or wormwood. Gall would be offered to a person as an end to pain, cure illness, or overdosing to kill. Ingesting opium, wormwood, or bile is like taking very bitter medicine. Therefore descriptions of eating and drinking the substances are metaphors for very bitter experiences. (See also Ps 22:15b). (Matt 27:34; John 19:29) They also gave me gall for my food. 2 + 69:21 b MP: Messiah will thirst and be given vinegar / sour wine to drink. Vinegar is an acid and constricts the throat. Vinegar was used for digestive medicine or possibly to suffocate or lower the vocalizations of victims. If myrrh was added to the sour wine vinegar, the purpose is to act as a pain duller, easing the victim’s sense of pain. Myrrh then is used like morphine is today. (See also Ps 22:15b). (Matt 27:34, 27:48; Mark 15:23) In my thirst, + 69:21. Quoted in John 19:28-29 they gave me vinegar to drink. + 69:21. Quoted in Matt 27:48; Mark 15:36; Luke 23:36 1
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In The King James Version
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
In Context
22Let their table before them become a snare. 2 May it become a retribution and a trap. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:18lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh Eloheikhem [Yahweh our God], to go to abad ·serve· the deities of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison; + 29:18. Quoted in Heb 12:15
Matthew 27:48+ 27:48. MP: Messiah will thirst. (See also Ps 69:21a, 69:21b). (Ps 22:15b) Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, + 27:48. MP: Messiah will thirst and be given vinegar / sour wine to drink. Vinegar is an acid and constricts the throat. Vinegar was used for digestive medicine or possibly to suffocate or lower the vocalizations of victims. If myrrh was added to the sour wine vinegar, the purpose is to act as a pain duller, easing the victim’s sense of pain. Myrrh then is used like morphine is today. (See also Ps 22:15). (Ps 69:21b) and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink. + 27:48. Quoted from Ps 69:21
Mark 15:36One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, + 15:36. Quoted from Ps 39:21, 69:21 saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah [My God Yah] comes to take him down.”
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 →