The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
Psalm 69 belongs to the cursing psalms, whose severe language is predictive declaration of tribulation for the enemies of God's people and of God's retributive justice and judgment upon oppressors, not a call for personal revenge or cruelty. It relates primarily to David and finally and antitypically to Christ, with portions quoted in the New Testament as fulfilled in Christ, yet not every verse applies to Christ. The prophecy applies partly to what is immediately present and partly to what is remote, having a literal application to Christ stated in the New Testament, yet the whole psalm cannot be taken as literally about him throughout, for that would make him a sinner.
It is prophetic of the Saviour's experience, especially when the sins of the world rested upon him. It gives a prophetic glimpse of Christ's inner experience in suffering and in life-and-death struggles with the enemy, showing that he suffered when tempted and can therefore help those who are tempted. The verse can be appropriated by Christians as well as by David when individual histories run parallel, as when one is eaten up by zeal for the Lord's house and takes on the reproaches of those who reproach the Lord, such use being an appropriated quotation and not a fulfillment of a prediction in the same sense, though both may be called fulfillments of Scripture. By contrast, it is held by those who held it that the verse is not a prediction at all but a simple record of David's experience, applying no more to Jesus than to anyone in the present day who is hated without a cause and whose history touches David's at certain points.
Placed at the close of the psalm, the verse ends with a prophecy of Christ's kingdom. It shows that the triumph Christ won is also won for his children, so that the descendants of his servants shall inherit the promised dwelling and those who love his name shall live there. It concerns God's children who love him and are threatened with dishonor, with a plea for God to accept and save them.
Psalm 69 belongs to the cursing psalms, whose severe language is predictive declaration of tribulation for the enemies of God's people and of God's retributive justice and judgment upon oppressors, not a call for personal revenge or cruelty. It relates primarily to David and finally and antitypically to Christ, with portions quoted in the New Testament as fulfilled in Christ, yet not every verse applies to Christ. The prophecy applies partly to what is immediately present and partly to what is remote, having a literal application to Christ stated in the New Testament, yet the whole psalm cannot be taken as literally about him throughout, for that would make him a sinner.
It is prophetic of the Saviour's experience, especially when the sins of the world rested upon him. It gives a prophetic glimpse of Christ's inner experience in suffering and in life-and-death struggles with the enemy, showing that he suffered when tempted and can therefore help those who are tempted. The verse can be appropriated by Christians as well as by David when individual histories run parallel, as when one is eaten up by zeal for the Lord's house and takes on the reproaches of those who reproach the Lord, such use being an appropriated quotation and not a fulfillment of a prediction in the same sense, though both may be called fulfillments of Scripture. By contrast, it is held by those who held it that the verse is not a prediction at all but a simple record of David's experience, applying no more to Jesus than to anyone in the present day who is hated without a cause and whose history touches David's at certain points.
Placed at the close of the psalm, the verse ends with a prophecy of Christ's kingdom. It shows that the triumph Christ won is also won for his children, so that the descendants of his servants shall inherit the promised dwelling and those who love his name shall live there. It concerns God's children who love him and are threatened with dishonor, with a plea for God to accept and save them.