“When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.”
The reference to weeping and fasting becoming the psalmist's reproach indicates that even acts of piety and spiritual discipline become occasions for mockery. The enemies use the psalmist's own devotion against them, deriding the external expressions of faith. This verse articulates that persecution is comprehensive: even the psalmist's spiritual practices are targets of mockery.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:10
1. We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed has spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, has leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: Genesis 9:19 for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the Patriarchs, Matthew 8:11 while those shall have been…
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