“Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.”
The plea that God would know the psalmist's reproach and shame and contempt articulates that God must be aware of the specifics of the suffering. The enumeration of different dimensions of shame (reproach, shame, contempt) suggests the comprehensive nature of the humiliation. The reference to all enemies being before God indicates that God sees the opposition. This verse emphasizes that divine knowledge of the suffering's reality is the basis for expecting divine response.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:19
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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