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Psalms 69:26

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Psalms 69:26

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

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They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

In the fulfillment reading, Psalm 69:26's picture of enemies persecuting one whom God has already struck is taken to anticipate the mystery of divinely purposed suffering, aligned with the servant 'stricken by God' in Isaiah 53:4, 10. Jesus' acceptance of the 'cup' the Father has given (John 18:11) and his completion of the work given to him (John 17:4) are read as consciously embracing that divinely initiated suffering. Advocates see the convergence of Psalm 69:26 with Isaiah 53 as a consistent prophetic theme of redemptive, God-ordained affliction. On this reading the psalm foreshadows a messianic pattern in which God initiates the suffering that enemies then exploit.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

In the critical reading, Psalm 69:26 operates within a retribution framework in which God's 'striking' signals punishment or testing, and the sufferer's enemies exploit that vulnerability. Critics contrast this with the Johannine texts (John 17:4; 18:11), where the Father's 'cup' is a redemptive mission voluntarily accepted rather than punitive judgment. On this view the two texts share the vocabulary of divine initiative in suffering while assigning it opposite theological meanings. The pairing is read as a thematic link across incompatible frameworks rather than a prediction, especially since John 17:4 and 18:11 contain no citation of the psalm.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • John 17:4 Not cited by the New Testament

    John 17:4 and 18:11 make no quotation, allusion, or discernible verbal echo of Psalm 69:26; the connection is a thematic association rather than a quotation or allusion in the NT text.

  • 18:11 Not cited by the New Testament

    John 17:4 and 18:11 make no quotation, allusion, or discernible verbal echo of Psalm 69:26; the connection is a thematic association rather than a quotation or allusion in the NT text.