When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting - The words “and chastened” are not in the original. The literal translation would …

When I wept ... —The expression I wept (or lamented) my soul with fasting is hardly intelligible, thoug…

That was a scandal to them.

And I wept, my soul fasted. David here proves, by the signs or effects, that his efforts to promote the Divine glory proceeded from a pure…

When I wept
Because of the sins of his people imputed to him; the hardness and unbelief of the Jews that rejected hi…

We should frequently consider the person of the Sufferer spoken of here, and ask why, as well as what He suffered. By meditating on this, we may be…