Psalm 69 - 10/6/2024 Sunday PM Study

The Tabernacle Today

Psalm 69 Worksheet

We come now to the _______________________ Psalm in Book 2 of the Psalms, the 9th longest Psalm of the 150 in the Psalter.

The Heading tells us it was written by David for the Chief Musician to use in worship, and like Psalm 45 set to “the lilies.” The Hebrew word for lilies is Shoshannim, which could also refer to a six-stringed instrument.

We see in David’s lament and prayer a sense that after suffering there will be ______________________, and many words in this Psalm are referred to in the New Testament about things Christ went through, making it a Messianic Psalm.

Read Psalm 69

What does David compare his suffering to in verses 1-2?

It makes you wonder whether David as a shepherd boy or soldier had ever been caught up in flood conditions and experienced their devastation.

David had cried tears until he was wore out, and his throat has gotten sore from crying out for deliverance, but it had not come. The last part may be a way of saying, “I’m dying here hoping for God to save me” (Verse 3).

Jesus quoted verse 4 in reference to Himself in John 15:25.

Verse 5 makes us think of the omniscience of God – God _____________________ our foolishness and our sins are not hidden from Him. In the Psalm David will appeal to God for mercy (v. 13) and lovingkindness (v. 16).

I like David’s train of thought – “God, you know I am a sinner; I know you receive repentant sinners who cry out to you!”

John may have been thinking of Psalm 69:8 when he wrote in John 7:3-5 that even Jesus’ brothers did not believe in Him. And John definitely quoted verse 9 about Jesus’ zeal for the purity of Temple worship.

A lot of David’s suffering also parallels Job’s suffering.

Job 19:13-15; Job 17:6 compared to Psalm 69:11

Despite the ____________________________ of even family and the mocking of drunkards, David appeals to God’s mercy.

I hope part of what you do during the week is _____________________ for people with heavy hearts who think no one cares like David describes himself (verse 20). May we say to someone this week in word and deed, “I care, and God cares.”

All four gospels cite verse 21 as they record the events of Golgotha/ Calvary (Matt. 27:34, 48; Mark 15:23; Luke 23:36; John 19:28-30).

Several of the curses on the wicked are referred to in the New Testament. Verses 22-23 are used by Paul in Romans 11:9-10 as Paul speaks of God’s vindication of a godly _________________________ who believe as opposed to “the rest” who were blinded. Jesus also used verse 23 in reference to the generation that rejected Him (Matt. 23:38; Luke 13:35).

Who did Peter apply verse 25 to in Acts 1:20?

Verse 26 is an interesting allusion to God’s sovereignty: “They persecute the ones You have struck.” It makes us think of how God ___________________________ Job’s sufferings, but his ‘friends’ interpreted that suffering as sin-based and ‘persecuted him.’ Of course it also makes us think of Jesus, slain before the foundation of the world (1 Pet.1:20; Rev. 13:8).

Genesis 50:20

Romans 8:28

Craig Gilreath – “Nothing happens to me that doesn’t first come across God’s desk!”

Verse 28 is another reference to the Book of Life. Those in “right standing” with God through faith will be in the Book and are citizens of Heaven, the wicked who _________________________ God will not be (Rev. 20:11-15).

Let your testimony be the same as verse 29 –

That’s what happened to Jesus – God the Son, the Son of Man returns to Heaven after suffering with glorified human flesh!

The last 7 verses go from the suffering of the “cross” to the triumph of “________________________.” In these last verses the meek, the weak, the needy and despised who know the Lord are all vindicated!

Verse 32 is a good verse to underline, circle, and continually meditate on!

Verse 34 makes us think of Romans 8:21 and Acts 3:19-21.