“Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.”
The reference to bearing reproach and shame for God's sake indicates that the psalmist understands the suffering as connected to faithfulness to God. The acceptance of reproach as a consequence of devotion suggests that being on God's side brings persecution. This verse articulates a theological understanding of suffering: affliction is the cost of covenant loyalty.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:7
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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