“But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.”
The affirmation that the psalmist is afflicted and in pain establishes that despite the petition for judgment on enemies, the focus returns to the psalmist's own suffering. The petition that God's salvation would lift up the psalmist indicates that deliverance will raise from the current state of degradation. This verse transitions from petition for judgment to petition for personal rescue.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:29
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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