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PSALM 69
THE ARGUMENT
This Psalm of David consists of his complaints and fervent prayers, and comfortable predictions of his deliverance, and of the ruin of his enemies. But the condition of this Psalm is like that of divers others, wherein although the matter or substance of it agree in some sort to David, yet there are some singular passages, which he delivers with a particular respect unto Christ, of whom he was an eminent type, and upon whom his thoughts were much and often fixed, and of whom they are more fitly and fully understood; and therefore they are justly applied to him in the New Testament, as we shall see.
David (as a type of Christ) complaineth of his heavy and manifold afflictions, Psa_69:1-12; fervently prayeth for help and deliverance, Psa_69:13-21; giveth over his enemies to, destruction, Psa_69:22-29; and praiseth God in confidence of being accepted, Psa_69:30-34, and Zion saved, Psa_69:35,36.
Waters, i.e. tribulations, which are oft expressed by waters; as hath been observed.
Unto my soul, i.e. to my vital parts; so that I am ready to be choked with them. My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death.