Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 69:22

"Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap." — Psalms 69:22 (ASV)

Let their table. —The form of this imprecation is, of course, suggested by the figurative language immediately preceding. Life had been made bitter by rancor and enmity, and the psalmist hurls back his curses, phrased in the terms that had come to his lips to express his own misery.

And that which. —Rather, and to them in peace a noose. Seated at the banquet, amid every sign of peace and every means of enjoyment, let their surroundings of security and pleasure become their snare and ruin. (Compare to 1 Thessalonians 5:3. See St. Paul’s citation, Romans 11:9, New Testament Commentary.)