Psalms 69:21

They gave me poison for my food; 1 in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 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

20Rebuke has broken my heart; I am full of heaviness; 1 I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; 1 I looked for comforters, but I found none. 1

22Let their table before them become a snare; 1 when they think they are in safety, let it become a trap. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is not among you any man, woman, clan, or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God, so as to go worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is not among you any root that produces gall and wormwood.

Jeremiah 8:14Why are we sitting here? Come together; let us go to the fortified cities, and we will become silent there in death. 1 For Yahweh our God will silence us. He will make us drink poison, since we have sinned against him. 1

Jeremiah 23:15Therefore Yahweh of hosts says this concerning the prophets, 1 “Look, I am about to make them eat wormwood and drink poisonous water, 1 for pollution has gone out from the prophets of Jerusalem to all the land.” 1

Lamentations 1:9She has become unclean beneath her skirts. She did not think about her future. 1 Her fall was terrible. There was no one to comfort her. 1 She cried out, “Look at my affliction, Yahweh, for the enemy has become too great!” 1

Matthew 27:48Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed staff, and gave it to him to drink.

Mark 15:36Someone ran, put sour wine on a sponge, put it on a reed staff, and gave it to him to drink. The man said, “Let us see if Elijah 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 →

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