Psalms 69:21
They also gave me gall for my food.In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
New Heart English Bible
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.May it become a retribution and a trap.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:18lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
Jeremiah 8:14"Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for the Lord our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: 'Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.'
Lamentations 1:9Her filthiness was in her skirts; she did not remember her latter end;therefore her fall was astonishing; she has no comforter."Look, Lord, on my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself."YOD
Matthew 27:48Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.
Mark 15:36One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let us see whether 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 →