Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
It is an inspired plea asking God to pour out His indignation and let His burning anger seize the wrongdoers. It shows a God who hates sin and repays it in just retribution rather than human revenge, foretelling the trouble that will come upon the enemies of His cause without urging cruelty. It belongs to the prophecy of what Christ endured in betrayal, condemnation and crucifixion when the sins of the world lay upon Him. Not every line of the psalm centers on Him in the same way, for one verse confesses wrongdoing that cannot be His while others were fulfilled in Him. It declares what will fall on those who reject God's goodness to the last, leaving them to reap what they have sown, and it remains a prayer His people may offer when the need calls, trusting that He hears.
Setting and Meaning
It is a plea for God to pour out indignation and for wrathful anger to take hold upon the psalmist's enemies. It stands as an inspired imprecation. It is to be read in connection with betrayal, condemnation, and crucifixion, when the sins of the world rested upon Christ, and its petitions against enemies prefigure experiences and events in Jesus' life, giving them significance for the enemies of Christ, including Lucifer and his followers.
Its setting is a sorrowful person sunk in weary waiting and deep waters. He is under reproach and shame, abandoned by brethren, and mocked even in weeping. He waits on God's loving-kindness and mercy for hastened deliverance. He prays that enemies will not be allowed to rejoice over him, that their chosen pathway will be darkened, and that all their joy will be turned to grief.
It reveals a sin-hating God who drowned the world, destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah by fire, extirpated the Canaanites, and thunders curses against sinners of every land and age. It means retributive providence and justice rather than vindictive revenge in David. Like the other cursing psalms, it is typical of tribulation upon the enemies of the church. It is predictive in simply declaring the punishment God will bring, with no incitement to cruelty.
Prophecy of Christ
The verse belongs to a prophecy of Christ's experience, to be read in connection with His betrayal, condemnation, and crucifixion, when the sins of the world rested upon Him. It shows that He bore human infirmities and endured suffering unto death. It gives a picture of His inner experience in His struggles with the enemy, helping readers understand how He suffered and was tempted. Its petitions against enemies prefigure experiences and events in Jesus' life, giving them significance for the enemies of Christ, including Lucifer and his followers. It stands among Israel's songs of thankfulness for deliverance from trials and is typical of Christ as the greater David.
The psalm relates primarily to David and finally and antitypically to Christ, with portions quoted in the New Testament as fulfilled in Him. Yet not every verse applies to Christ, since verse 5 applied to Christ would make Him a sinner, while verses 9, 21 and others were fulfilled in Him. It applies literally to Christ as the New Testament expressly states, yet not every part applies in the same literal way. For a prophecy may apply partly to what is immediately before the reader and partly to what is remote. To insist that if one text is used in an accommodated sense the whole must be, or if one part is literal the whole must be, would either prove Christ a sinner or deny its literal application to Him.
By the teaching of those who held the other view, the psalm is not a prediction but a simple record of David's experience. The verse does not specially foretell Jesus but applies to Him no more than to anyone in the present day who is hated without a cause and whose history runs parallel to David's in certain points. The psalm may be appropriated by a Christian when his history runs parallel to David's. Such appropriated quotation is different from fulfillment of a prediction, though both may be called fulfillment of Scripture in different senses.
Judgment and Prayer
As part of the span from verse 22 through verse 28, the plea for outpoured indignation and seizing wrath describes what will come upon the incorrigibly wicked. Those wicked have rejected divine goodness to the utmost, and therefore God leaves them to reap the harvest they themselves have sown.
The imprecation belongs among the inspired prayers that God's people may pray when circumstances call for them, with assurance that God hears. The psalm is prophetic of the experience through which the Saviour passed, and the triumph He won through that experience is also the triumph of His children.
It is an inspired plea asking God to pour out His indignation and let His burning anger seize the wrongdoers. It shows a God who hates sin and repays it in just retribution rather than human revenge, foretelling the trouble that will come upon the enemies of His cause without urging cruelty. It belongs to the prophecy of what Christ endured in betrayal, condemnation and crucifixion when the sins of the world lay upon Him. Not every line of the psalm centers on Him in the same way, for one verse confesses wrongdoing that cannot be His while others were fulfilled in Him. It declares what will fall on those who reject God's goodness to the last, leaving them to reap what they have sown, and it remains a prayer His people may offer when the need calls, trusting that He hears.
Setting and Meaning
It is a plea for God to pour out indignation and for wrathful anger to take hold upon the psalmist's enemies. It stands as an inspired imprecation. It is to be read in connection with betrayal, condemnation, and crucifixion, when the sins of the world rested upon Christ, and its petitions against enemies prefigure experiences and events in Jesus' life, giving them significance for the enemies of Christ, including Lucifer and his followers.
Its setting is a sorrowful person sunk in weary waiting and deep waters. He is under reproach and shame, abandoned by brethren, and mocked even in weeping. He waits on God's loving-kindness and mercy for hastened deliverance. He prays that enemies will not be allowed to rejoice over him, that their chosen pathway will be darkened, and that all their joy will be turned to grief.
It reveals a sin-hating God who drowned the world, destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah by fire, extirpated the Canaanites, and thunders curses against sinners of every land and age. It means retributive providence and justice rather than vindictive revenge in David. Like the other cursing psalms, it is typical of tribulation upon the enemies of the church. It is predictive in simply declaring the punishment God will bring, with no incitement to cruelty.
Prophecy of Christ
The verse belongs to a prophecy of Christ's experience, to be read in connection with His betrayal, condemnation, and crucifixion, when the sins of the world rested upon Him. It shows that He bore human infirmities and endured suffering unto death. It gives a picture of His inner experience in His struggles with the enemy, helping readers understand how He suffered and was tempted. Its petitions against enemies prefigure experiences and events in Jesus' life, giving them significance for the enemies of Christ, including Lucifer and his followers. It stands among Israel's songs of thankfulness for deliverance from trials and is typical of Christ as the greater David.
The psalm relates primarily to David and finally and antitypically to Christ, with portions quoted in the New Testament as fulfilled in Him. Yet not every verse applies to Christ, since verse 5 applied to Christ would make Him a sinner, while verses 9, 21 and others were fulfilled in Him. It applies literally to Christ as the New Testament expressly states, yet not every part applies in the same literal way. For a prophecy may apply partly to what is immediately before the reader and partly to what is remote. To insist that if one text is used in an accommodated sense the whole must be, or if one part is literal the whole must be, would either prove Christ a sinner or deny its literal application to Him.
By the teaching of those who held the other view, the psalm is not a prediction but a simple record of David's experience. The verse does not specially foretell Jesus but applies to Him no more than to anyone in the present day who is hated without a cause and whose history runs parallel to David's in certain points. The psalm may be appropriated by a Christian when his history runs parallel to David's. Such appropriated quotation is different from fulfillment of a prediction, though both may be called fulfillment of Scripture in different senses.
Judgment and Prayer
As part of the span from verse 22 through verse 28, the plea for outpoured indignation and seizing wrath describes what will come upon the incorrigibly wicked. Those wicked have rejected divine goodness to the utmost, and therefore God leaves them to reap the harvest they themselves have sown.
The imprecation belongs among the inspired prayers that God's people may pray when circumstances call for them, with assurance that God hears. The psalm is prophetic of the experience through which the Saviour passed, and the triumph He won through that experience is also the triumph of His children.