Psalms 69:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

Psalms 69:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 5:6
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Romans 11:10
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Isaiah 6:9-10
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. …
Jeremiah 30:6
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Isaiah 29:9-10
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-29)

These imprecations are not David’s prayers against his enemies, but prophecies of the destruction of Christ’s persecutors, especially the Jewish nation, which our Lord himself foretold with tears, and which was accomplished about forty years after the death of Christ. The first two verses of this paragraph are expressly applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews by the apostle (Ps.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

22-23. With unimportant verbal changes, this language is used by Paul to describe the rejection of the Jews who refused to receive the Saviour (Ro 11:9, 10). The purport of the figures used is that blessings shall become curses, the “table” of joy (as one of food) a “snare,” their welfare--literally, “peaceful condition,” or security, a “trap.” Darkened eyes and failing strength complete the pictu…