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Psalm 69:26
For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
27Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
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The words “you have wounded” make this plea for judgment hard to read: the speaker names God’s wounding and the persecution that follows.
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Isaiah 53:4Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.The psalm addresses God as the one who wounds; Isaiah reports that observers considered the sufferer struck by God.
Mark 15:27–32With him they crucified two robbers, one on his right hand, and one on his left.Both describe suffering at human hands, though Mark’s account of crucifixion does not echo the psalm’s words about God’s wounding.
Zechariah 1:15I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”Both distinguish affliction attributed to God from further harm inflicted by people; Zechariah says the nations added to the calamity.
Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?Both speak of persecution alongside affliction attributed to God; Job challenges his persecutors, while the psalm addresses God.
Isaiah 53:10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his …Both attribute a sufferer’s hurt to God; Isaiah also speaks of an offering for sin and the prolonging of his days.
Isaiah 47:6I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.Both describe people adding harm to those under God’s hand; Isaiah names the lack of mercy and the heavy yoke on the aged.
2 Chronicles 28:9But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because the LORD, …Both condemn human cruelty toward those afflicted under God’s authority; Oded names Judah’s defeat and the army’s rage.
Zechariah 13:7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says the LORD of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; …Both speak of God’s action in striking someone; Zechariah names a shepherd and the scattering of his sheep.
1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,Both name persecution as grounds for condemnation; Paul speaks of killing Jesus and the prophets and driving out his companions.
Judges 16:25When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. …Both concern the treatment of someone in distress: the psalm names persecution, while Judges shows Samson brought from prison for entertainment.
2 Samuel 16:5When King David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he …Both describe hostile treatment directed at a person; the psalm names persecution, while Shimei comes out cursing David.
Job 16:2“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!Both concern harmful responses to suffering: the psalm names persecution and talk of sorrow, while Job protests against miserable comforters.
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In this prayer, God’s wounding gives persecutors no excuse. The speaker asks God to judge those who add harm to people in sorrow.
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