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The Sin of Adding to Suffering
Commentators highlight the extreme cruelty described here. The persecutors see someone already afflicted (or "smitten by God") and, instead of showing compassion, they add to the suffering with their own attacks and malicious gossip. This reveals a brutal disposition that despises both the afflicted and God himself, turning a moment for mercy into an opportunity for malice.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 69:26
18th Century
Theologian
For they persecute him whom you have smitten – This means that instead of pitying one who is afflicted by God, or showing compassio…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 69:26
19th Century
Bishop
They talk ... —Better, and respecting the pain of your pierced ones, they talk. (For the construction of this verb ta…
John Calvin
On Psalms 69:26
16th Century
Theologian
For they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten. He brings forward the crime with which they were chargeable, to make it clear that th…
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John Gill
On Psalms 69:26
17th Century
Pastor
For they persecute [him] whom you have smitten
Meaning the Messiah, who was not only smitten and scourged by men, bu…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 69:22–29
17th Century
Minister
These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verses 22 and 23 are applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews, in…