“Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.”
The prayer that their eyes be darkened so they cannot see articulates the request for divine judgment that will disable the enemies' capacity to perceive and understand. The metaphor of blindness suggests spiritual darkness and the inability to recognize truth. The reference to making their loins tremble continuously indicates that fear and instability should characterize the enemies' existence. This verse continues the petition for divine judgment that will afflict enemies.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:23
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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