“Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.”
The petition that their table become a snare and their prosperity a trap articulates the request for divine retribution using the poetic justice principle: that the instruments of sustenance and joy for enemies become instruments of their undoing. The imagery suggests that what the enemies celebrate and rely on will become the means of their judgment. This verse moves from lament to petition for judgment on enemies.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:22
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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