Psalms 69:26
24 Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.
25 May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
27 Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.
28 May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
- KJV
- For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
- WEB
- For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
- ASV
- For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
- DARBY
- For they persecute him whom *thou* hast smitten, and they talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
- BLB
- For You—the one whom You struck—they pursue, and the pain of those You pierced they recount.
- ÅB
- For den du har slått, forfølger de, og de forteller om deres smerte som du har stunget.
- OTB
- For de har forfulgt den Du har slått,
Og de forteller om smerten til dem Du har såret. - B1930
- For den du har slått, forfølger de, og de forteller om deres smerte som du har stunget.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 53:4
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
Read in contextZechariah 1:15
but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
Read in contextMark 15:27–32
Along with Jesus, they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.
Read in contextIsaiah 53:10
Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
Read in contextZechariah 13:7
Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
Read in context2 Chronicles 28:9
But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
Read in contextJob 19:21–22
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
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