“For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.”
The reference to those whom God has struck being pursued with pain establishes that the psalmist's suffering is connected to God's judgment on the enemies; their opposition to the psalmist is participation in rebellion against God. The continuation that they add to the pain of those already pained by God indicates that the enemies are layering their own assault on top of God's judgment. The reference to the person God has struck being pursued indicates the fulfillment of God's sentence. This verse connects the psalmist's suffering to God's larger purposes of judgment.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:26
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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