“I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.”
The reference to those who hate without cause being more than the hairs of the head establishes that opposition is countless and undeserved. The comparison to hairs suggests both multitude and the triviality of individual hairs, yet the collective counting becomes overwhelming. The emphasis that enemies hate without cause indicates that there is no legitimate provocation; the opposition is gratuitous. This verse articulates that the psalmist faces not isolated opposition but a comprehensive assault by many adversaries.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:3
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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