“Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.”
The plea that God pour out anger on enemies articulates the request for the full measure of divine wrath to be directed at persecutors. The reference to burning wrath indicates the intensity and severity of the judgment sought. The affirmation that the hot anger of God should catch them establishes that the psalmist trusts in God's righteous anger at the wicked. This verse intensifies the petition for divine judgment.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:24
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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