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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Psalms 69:22 - 69:22
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With unimportant verbal changes, this language is used by Paul to describe the rejection of the Jews who refused to receive the Savior (Rom 11:9, Rom 11:10). The purport of the figures used is that blessings shall become curses, the “table” of joy (as one of food) a “snare,” their
welfare - literally, “peaceful condition,” or security, a “trap.” Darkened eyes and failing strength complete the picture of the ruin falling on them under the invoked retribution.