Psalm 69 - overcomer - The Zeal for Your House

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=125 BGCOLOR="#996699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f467d1erlcll.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>VoiceInWilderness.info</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="VoiceInWilderness.info"><B>home</B></A></div> <div>                                                     |  </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=349 style="border-right: 1px solid #CCCCCC;" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <U>Psalm 69 - overcomer - The Zeal for Your House</U><U> </U></div> <div> Work in Progress</div> <bR> <div> Tune: See <A HREF="psalm_45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalm 45 overcomer The Messiah and His">Psalm 45</A> for the tune and "Upon the water-lillies". I had chosen the tune "<A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/246" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/246">Joys are flowing like a river</A>" for Psalm 45 for the reasons given in that Psalm. Since this Psalm is also "Upon the water-lillies", I tried to use the same tune for this Psalm, but it did not work. </div> <div> I searched for a tune that would go with "water-lillies" and also work for both Psalm 45 and this Psalm, and I tried the lively beautiful tune "<A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/nt/788" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/nt/788">When thou wakest in the morning</A>". This worked for both at first, but I found it is too complex for a long psalm like Psalm 69. </div> <div> I tried <A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/635" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/635">"Let us contemplate the grape vine"</A>, which seemed to work for both. But when I would try to sing Ps 69 from memory using that tune, I had to keep fighting from falling into the simpler tune, which I am now using.  If I feel this one is right for this psalm, then I will change psalm 45 to use the same tune.</div> <bR> <div> Thus for the second time we have a Psalm entitled "upon the lilies." In the forty-fifth they were golden lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh, and blooming in the fair gardens which skirt the ivory palaces: in this we have the lily among thorns, the lily of the valley, fair and beautiful, blooming in the garden of Gethsemane. - C. H. Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> This Psalm seems to be almost entirely about the Lord Jesus except for<A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"> v5</A>. Here is a table of the verses applying to David or the Lord Jesus or both:</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="213" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>Verse</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>David</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>Messiah</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>1</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>2</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFF00 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>possibly</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>3</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>4</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FF9900><NOBR><div> <B>doubtful</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>5</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FF0000 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>no</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>6</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>7</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFF00 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>possibly</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>8</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FF0000 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>no</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>9</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFF00 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>possibly</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>10</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>11</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFF00 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>possibly</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>12</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>13</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>14</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>15</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>16</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>17</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>18</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>19</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>20</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>21</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FF0000 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>no</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>22</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FF0000 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>no</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>23</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FF0000 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>no</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>24</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FF0000 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>no</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>25</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FF0000 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>no</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>26</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFF00 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>possibly</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>27</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FF0000 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>no</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>28</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FF0000 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>no</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>29</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>30</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>31</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>32</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFF00 WIDTH="71"><div> <B>possibly</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>33</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>34</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>35</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="45"><div> <B>36</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> <B>yes</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v1</A> - 1st request: Save me.</div> <div> 1st suffering: David is drowning in deep waters, which are deep troubles.</div> <bR> <div> "For the waters are come in unto my soul." Sorrows, deep, abounding, deadly, had penetrated his inner nature. Bodily anguish is not his first complaint; he begins not with the gall which embittered his lips, but with the mighty griefs which broke into his heart. All the sea outside a vessel is less to be feared than that which finds its way into the hold. A wounded spirit who can bear (<A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#prov18_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">Prov. 18:14</A>). Our Lord in this verse is seen before us as a Jonah, crying, "The waters compassed me about, even to the soul" (<A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#jonah2_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">Jonah 2:5</A>). He was doing business for us on the great waters, at his Father's command; the stormy wind was lifting up the waves thereof, and he went down to the depths till his soul was melted because of trouble. In all this he has sympathy with us, and is able to succour us when we, like Peter, beginning to sink, cry to him, "Lord, save, or we perish." - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v2</A>- 2nd suffering: David is sunk in deep mire, which is a deeply confused state. I can't go forward to follow the Lord.</div> <div> I feel this way when I have too much too do, and I am afraid to do it.</div> <bR> <div> "I sink in deep mire." In water one might swim, but in mud and mire all struggling is hopeless; the mire sucks down its victim. </div> <div> "Where there is no standing." Everything gave way under the Sufferer; he could not get foothold for support—this is a worse fate than drowning. ... Let our hearts feel the emotions, both of contrition and gratitude, as we see in this simile the deep humiliation of our Lord. I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. The sorrow gathers even greater force; he is as one cast into the sea, the waters go over his head. His sorrows were first within, then around, and now above him. ... His sufferings were unlike all others in degree, the waters were such as soaked into the soul; the mire was the mire of the abyss itself, and the floods were deep and overflowing. To us the promise is, "the rivers shall not overflow thee" (<A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#isa43_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">Isa. 43:2</A>), but no such word of consolation was vouchsafed to him. My soul, thy Well beloved endured all this for thee. Many waters could not quench his love, neither could the floods drown it (<A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#sos8_7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">SoS 8:7</A>); and, because of this, thou hast the rich benefit of that covenant assurance, "as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee"  (<A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#isa54_9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">Isa. 54:9</A>). He stemmed the torrent of almighty wrath, that we might for ever rest in Jehovah's love. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v3</A>- 3rd suffering: God is not answering me. Maybe this is the deep mire in v2.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v</A><A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">4</A>-<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > lit. what I took not away I then return</FONT></div> <div> ref. <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#joh5_24" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">John 15:25</A></div> <div> 4th suffering: Many strong enemies are trying to put an end to me.This is in addition to the deep waters in vv1-2 because of <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v14</A>.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v5</A> -<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > lit. and my trespasses from You are not hidden.</FONT></div> <div> See <A HREF="psalm_38_5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalm 38 My Sins are Too Heavy for Me">Psalm 38:5 and note</A>.</div> <div> 1st possible reason for my suffering.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v6</A> -<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>2nd request. </div> <div> I pray that God's seekers not be ashamed or confused.</div> <div> He addresses God as the God of hosts, that is the God of armies, who is actively fighting, and then as the God of Israel, the God whose concern is for His people, and not just me. </div> <div> ref. <A HREF="psalm_25_3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalm 25 Unto Thee O Lord do I lift up ">Psalm 25:3</A></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v7</A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" >lit. Shame covered my face.</FONT></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v8</A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" >lit. and an alien to my mother's sons.</FONT></div> <div> ref. <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#joh1_10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">John 1:11; 7:5</A></div> <div> 5th suffering: My relatives are distant from me.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v9</A> -<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > lit. and the reproaches of them that reproach Thee</FONT></div> <div> ref. <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#joh2_13" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">John 2:17; Rom 15:3</A></div> <div> 6th suffering: I am being reproached.</div> <div> 2nd reason for my suffering. The first reason in v5 was a possible reason. This is a definite one.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v10</A> -<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > lit. and insults to me it became.</FONT></div> <div> This verse  through v12 give details of the reproaches upon me in v9.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v11</A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" >lit. a proverb I became to them</FONT></div> <div> "I made sackcloth also my garment." This David did literally, but we have no reason to believe that Jesus did. In a spiritual sense he, as one filled with grief, was always a sackcloth wearer. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v12</A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0033FF" FACE="Arial" > I am thinking of posting this verse in response to people that make fun of me or someone else on social media. But I have to be true to the following verse also.</FONT></div> <div> "And I was the song of the drunkard." The ungodly know no merrier jest than that in which the name of the holy is traduced. ... The character of the man of Nazareth was so far above the appreciation of the men of strength to mingle strong drink, it was so much out of their way and above their thoughts, that it is no wonder it seemed to them ridiculous, and therefore well adapted to create laughter over their cups. The saints are ever choice subjects for satire. ... What a wonder of condescension is here that he who is the adoration of angels should stoop to be the song of drunkards! What amazing sin that he whom seraphs worship with veiled faces should be a scornful proverb among the most abandoned of men. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#13" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v13</A> - 3rd request. first praise</div> <div> Ref. <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#2cor6_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">2Cor 6:2; Isa 49:8</A></div> <div> This is the best way to answer reproach.</div> <div> This is the turning point in the Psalm from looking at my situation to God's mercy.</div> <div> O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me. Even the perfect one makes his appeal to the rich mercy of God, much more should we. To misery no attribute is more sweet than mercy, and when sorrows multiply, the multitude of mercy is much prized. When enemies are more than the hairs of our head, they are yet to be numbered, but God's mercies are altogether innumerable, and let it never be forgotten that every one of them is an available and powerful argument in the hand of faith. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v14 </A>- 3rd request continued through v18</div> <div> I pray regarding my sufferings: suffering #2 sinking in the mire (<A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v2</A>), #4 those who hate me (<A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v4</A>), and #1 depths of waters (<A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v1</A>). The "and" connecting "my haters" with "depths of waters" indicates that these are 2 different sufferings.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="15n"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v15</A> -</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v16</A> - My favorite verse in this psalm.</div> <div> 2nd praise</div> <div> The reason for God to answer me.</div> <div> This builds on the turning point in v13. I know Your mercy is good.</div> <div> --- stopped here ---</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#17" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v17</A> -<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" > lit. answer me speedily</FONT></div> <div> Our Lord was the perfection of patience, yet he cried urgently for speedy mercy; and therein he gives us liberty to do the same, so long as we add, "nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v18 </A>-<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Arial" > Deliver me because of mine enemies, lest they should, in their vaunting, blaspheme thy name, and boast that thou art not able to rescue those who put their trust in thee. - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <bR> <div> v19 - lit. You know my reproach</div> <div>  <A NAME="v20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v20 </A>- lit. and for comforters, but I found none.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v21</A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial" >lit. And they gave me gall for my food</FONT></div> <div> ref <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#joh19_28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">John 19:28-30</A></div> <div> This did not happen to David, but to his descendant, Jesus.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#22" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v22 </A>- 4th request through v29</div> <div> The prayer of judgment in vv22-28 seems like something a Christian should not pray. But this is not asking that the persons be tortured forever in hell, but that they lose eternal life. The reasons for the prayer are that they gave me gall and vinegar (v21), and that they increase the pain of those God has smitten (v26). </div> <div> ref. <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#rom11_9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">Romans 11:9-10</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="n25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">v25</A> - Ref. <A HREF="psalm_69ab_m.htm#mat23_37" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">Mat 23:38; Acts 1:20</A></div> <bR> <div> v26 - lit. for they pursue him whom You have smitten, and they talk for the sorrow of those whom You have wounded.</div> <bR> <div> v27 - lit. Give iniquity upon their iniquity, and do not let them enter Your righteousness.</div> <bR> <div> v31 - ref Ps 40:6; Hos 6:6</div> <bR> <div> v33 2nd praise through the end of the psalm</div> <div> The Lord's captives are Christians whose lives are given to Him.</div> <bR> <div> 34 lit. the seas and all that moves therein</div> <bR> <div> v35 Why does David say, cities of Judah instead of Israel? "Judah" refers to the Jewish people specifically, and "Israel" refers to God's chosen people, both Old Testament saints and Christians. I think this refers to the millenium and the physical land of Israel.</div> <bR> <div> v36 I think "the seed of His servants" are the Jewish people. "They that love His name" are Christians who are grafted into Israel.</div> <bR> <div> -copyright Steve Miller 1/29/2023</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Psalm 69 For the Overcomer. </B><A HREF="psalm_45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalm 45 overcomer The Messiah and His"><B>Upon the water-lillies</B></A><B>. Through David</B></div> <div> <I>Tune: </I><A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/460b" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/460b"><I>#460</I></A><A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/460b" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/460b"><I> Jesus, I my cross have taken (Alternate Tune)</I></A></div> <div> <I>Meter: 8.7.8.7.D.</I></div> <div> <I> <embed src="HTMLobj-1128/e8174_iJesusIMyXHaveTakenAlt.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </I></div> <div> music file from <A HREF="http://www.hymnal.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hymnal.net">hymnal.net</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >1</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Kids board game" > </FONT><A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">1</A> Save me, O God   for the waters </div> <div> as far as to   <I>the </I>soul have come.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">2</A> I am sunk in   deep mire <I>wherein</I></div> <div>  there is nothing  to stand upon.</div> <div>  <A NAME="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> I've come into depths of waters, </div> <div> and the flood over me prevails.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n3" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">3</A> I'm exhausted in my calling, </div> <div> my throat is scorched. My eyes have failed.</div> <div> <I> <A NAME="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> 2<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Kids board game" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >While I wait on   my God, those, that </FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">4</A> without any   reason hate me,</div> <div> the hairs of my   head outnumber.</div> <div> They are mighty   that would slay me</div> <div>  <A NAME="5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> being foes wrongfully  to me. </div> <div> Then I returned what I took not.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">5</A> God, You have known   'bout  my folly,</div> <div> and my guilt from  Thee is hid not.</div> <div>  <A NAME="6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >3</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Kids board game" > </FONT><A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">6</A> Let not them that wait on Thee, LORD,</div> <div> O God of Hosts,   be shamed by me.</div> <div> Let not those that  are seeking Thee </div> <div> be confounded because of me,</div> <div>  <A NAME="7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> God of Israel.   <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n7" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">7</A> For for Your sake </div> <div> I have borne scorn,   shame's on my face.</div> <div>  <A NAME="8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">8</A> I'm a stranger  to my brothers,</div> <div> a foreigner  unto my race. </div> <div>  <A NAME="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >4</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Kids board game" > </FONT><A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n9" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">9 </A> For the zeal   of Your house devoured,</div> <div>  <I>it has consumed,  has eaten</I> me, </div> <div> and reproaches that reproach Thee </div> <div> have fallen <I>now   to rest </I>on me.</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n10" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">10</A> I wept in fasting of my soul.</div> <div> and insults to   me it became</div> <div>  <A NAME="11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">11</A> And I gave sackcloth for my clothes,</div> <div> and a proverb <I>then </I>I became.</div> <div>  <A NAME="12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >5</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Kids board game" > </FONT><A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n12" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">12</A> Sitters in the gate talk of me, </div> <div> <I>along </I>with songs   of drunken <I>fools</I>.</div> <div>  <A NAME="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n13" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">13</A> But as for me,   my prayer's to Thee, </div> <div> LORD, in a time  acceptable.</div> <div> <I> <A NAME="14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> God, in Your abundant mercy,</div> <div> do answer me   in the truth of</div> <div> Your salvation. <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n14" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">14</A> Deliver me.</div> <div> Let me not sink   into the mud.</div> <div>  <A NAME="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >6</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Kids board game" > </FONT>Deliver me  from my haters, </div> <div> and out from the    depths of waters.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#15n" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">15 </A> Let not the flood of the waters </div> <div> overflow me <I>nor me cover</I>. </div> <div>  <A NAME="16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> neither let the   deep swallow me,</div> <div> neither let the    pit its mouth shut</div> <div> on top of me.   <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">16</A> LORD answer me</div> <div> because <I>that </I>Your   mercy<I> </I>is good: </div> <div>  <A NAME="17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 7<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Kids board game" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >According to the abundance </FONT></div> <div> of Your <I>great most   </I>tender mercies</div> <div> turn toward me  <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n17" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">17</A> and do not hide </div> <div> Your face from Your   servant,<I> e'en</I> <I>me</I>.</div> <div>  <A NAME="18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> for I'm in trouble. Answer me.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#v18" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">18</A>  Draw nigh unto  my soul redeem.</div> <div> Ransom  me because of my foes.</div> <div> 19 You know <I>how </I>low I am esteemed</div> <div>  <A NAME="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 8<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > and my disgrace and dishonor.</FONT></div> <div> All of my foes   are before Thee.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#v20" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">20</A> Reproach<I>es</I> have broken my heart, </div> <div> and I am <I>found </I>in misery.</div> <div>  <A NAME="21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> and I waited for sympathy, </div> <div> but there was none,   nor comforters. </div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n21" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">21</A> They gave me gall   for my food and </div> <div> for my thirst they   gave vinegar. </div> <div>  <A NAME="22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >9</FONT><A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"> 22</A> Let their table a snare become</div> <div> before them and their <I>own </I>welfare, </div> <div> a stumbling block let it become,</div> <div> 23 <I>and </I>let their eyes become darkened, </div> <bR> <div> that they cannot  see, and always</div> <div> make their backs to be downward bent.</div> <div> 24 Pour out Your anger on them, and </div> <div> let Your fury   take hold of them.</div> <div>  <A NAME="25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >10</FONT> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n25" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H">25 </A>Their dwelling be  desolated.</div> <div> In their tents let   be there no one.</div> <div> 26 For they speak to  increase the pain,</div> <div> and pursue those whom You've smitten.</div> <bR> <div> <I>They give sorrow</I> <I>to those You pierced</I>. </div> <div> 27 Give them iniquity upon</div> <div> iniquity, and righteousness,</div> <div> to enter it   let not  them come.</div> <bR> <div> 11<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Kids board game" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >28 Blot them out from the Book of Life, </FONT></div> <div> with the righteous   not be written.</div> <div> 29 But I'm lowly and sorrowful.</div> <div> O God, let Thy <I>own </I>salvation</div> <bR> <div> set me on high. 30 I'll praise God's name</div> <div> in a song   and I'll extol Him</div> <div> in thanks, 31 and it  shall please the LORD</div> <div> more than an ox, with hoofs  and horns.</div> <bR> <div> 12<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > 32 The meek did see. Those that God seek</FONT></div> <div> shall be glad,   and your heart shall live.</div> <div> 33 For the LORD hears the needy and </div> <div> He despises   not His captives.</div> <bR> <div> 34 Let heaven and the earth praise Him,</div> <div> the oceans and   all that moves there</div> <div> 35 for God will save Zion and build</div> <div> Judah's cities,   and they'll dwell there</div> <bR> <div> 13<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > and possess it.  36 And the seed of </FONT></div> <div> His servants shall  inherit it,</div> <div> and they that love His name shall dwell </div> <div> therein <I>as kingdom citizens</I>.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> -copyright Steve Miller 1/29/2023</div> <div>  <A NAME="prov18_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>Proverbs 18:14 </B></A>The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?</div> <div>  <A NAME="jonah2_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>Jonah 2:5 </B></A>The waters encompassed me, as far as the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.</div> <div>  <A NAME="isa43_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>Isaiah 43:2 </B></A>When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.</div> <div>  <A NAME="sos8_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>Song of Solomon 8:7</B></A> Many waters cannot quench love, Neither do the floods drown it: Even if a man gave all the substance of his house for love, It would utterly be contemned.</div> <div>  <A NAME="isa54_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_69ab_l.htm#n2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>Isaiah 54:9</B></A> For this is as the waters of Noah unto me, since I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth: so have I sworn that I will no more be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh5_24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#4" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>John 15:24</B></A> If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.</div> <div>  25 But <B>that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.</B></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="joh1_10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="#8" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>John 1:10</B></A><B> </B>He was in the world, and the world had its being through him, and the world knew him not.</div> <div>  11 He came to his own, and <B>his own received him not</B>;</div> <div>  12 but as many as received him, to them gave he the right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;</div> <div> <B>7:5</B> for neither did his brethren believe on him.</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh2_13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#9" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>John 2:13</B></A><A HREF="#9" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B> </B></A>And the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.</div> <div>  14 And he found in the temple the sellers of oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting;</div> <div>  15 and, having made a scourge of cords, he cast them all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the change of the money-changers, and overturned the tables,</div> <div>  16 and said to the sellers of doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.</div> <div>  17 And his disciples remembered that it is written, <B>The zeal of thy house devours me</B>.</div> <div> <B>Romans 15:1</B> But we ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.</div> <div>  2 Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.</div> <div>  3 For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, <B>The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me</B>.</div> <div>  4 For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2cor6_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#13" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>2Corinthians 6:2</B></A> (for he says, I have listened to thee<B> in an accepted time</B>, and I have helped thee in a day of salvation: behold, now is the well-accepted time; behold, now the day of salvation:)</div> <div> <B>Isaiah 49:7</B> Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes, and they shall worship, because of Jehovah who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.</div> <div>  8 Thus saith Jehovah: <B>In a time of acceptance have I answered thee,</B> and in the day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the land, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;</div> <div>  9 saying to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare hills.</div> <div>  10 They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them; for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, and by the springs of water will he guide them.</div> <div>  11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be raised up.</div> <div>  12 Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh19_28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#21" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>John 19:28</B></A> After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now finished,<B> that the scripture might be fulfilled</B>, says, I thirst.</div> <div>  29 There was a vessel therefore there full of vinegar, and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting hyssop round it, they put it up to his mouth.</div> <div>  30 When therefore <B>Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished</B>; and having bowed his head, he delivered up his spirit.</div> <div>  <A NAME="rom11_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#22" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>Romans 11:9</B></A> And <B>David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:</B></div> <div> <B> 10 let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway</B>.</div> <div>  11 I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.</div> <div>  12 But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?</div> <div>  13 For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as *I* am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;</div> <div>  14 if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.</div> <div>  15 For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?</div> <div>  <A NAME="mat23_37"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#25" TITLE="Psalm 69 overcomer The Zeal for Your H"><B>Matthew 23:37 </B></A>Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!</div> <div>  38 Behold, <B>your house is left unto you desolate</B>;</div> <div>  39 for I say unto you, Ye shall in no wise see me henceforth until ye say, Blessed be he that comes in the name of the Lord.</div> <div> <B>Acts 1:20</B> For it is written in the book of Psalms, <B>Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it</B>; and, Let another take his overseership.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>