The Most Avoided Messianic Psalm (5): Godly and Ungodly Responses (Psalm 69:10-13) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. The First Response of David
II. The Wicked Response of His Enemies
III. The Second Response of David
Psalm singing: 149:1-6; 34:17-22; 109:21-27; 69:7-13 (see below for the words to the Psalms)
Scripture reading: Job 30:1-19
John Calvin on Psalm 69:13: "It was a sign of uncommon virtue in David, that even this hard treatment could not shake his mind, and sink him into despondency. He informs us of the means by which he fortified himself against that terrible stumbling-block. When the wicked directed against him their witty and scoffing remarks, as if engines of war, to overthrow his faith, the means to which he had recourse for repelling all their assaults was pouring out his heart in prayer to God. He was constrained to keep silence before men, and, being thus driven out from the world, he betook himself to God. In like manner, although the faithful in the present day may be unable to make any impression upon the wicked, yet they will ultimately triumph, provided they retire from the world, and go directly to God to present their prayers before him. The meaning, in short, is, that David, having tried every means in his power, and finding that his labor was to no purpose, left off dealing with men, and dealt with God only."

Psalm 149:1-6
1 PRAISE ye the Lord : unto him sing
a new song, and his praise
In the assembly of his saints
in sweet psalms do ye raise.
2 Let Isr’el in his Maker joy,
and to him praises sing:
Let all that Sion’s children are
be joyful in their King.
3 0 let them unto his great name
give praises in the dance ;
Let them with timbrel and with harp
in songs his praise advance.
4 For God doth pleasure take in those
that his own people be ;
And he with his salvation
the meek will beautify.
5 And in his glory excellent
let all his saints rejoice:
Let them to him upon their beds
aloud lift up their voice.
6 Let in their mouth aloft be rais’d
the high praise of the Lord,
And let them have in their right hand
a sharp two-edged sword;

Psalm 34:17-22
17 The righteous cry unto the Lord,
lie unto them gives ear;
And they out of their troubles all
by him deliver’d are
18 The Lord is ever nigh to them
that be of broken sp’rit;
To them he safety doth afford
that are in heart contrite.
19 The troubles that afflict the just
in number many be;
But yet at length out of them all
the Lord doth set him free.
20 He carefully his bones doth keep,
whatever can befall;
That not so much as one of them
can broken be at all.
21 Ill shall the wicked slay; laid waste
shall be who hate the just.
22 The Lord redeems his servants’ souls ;
none perish that him trust.

Psalm 109:21-27
21 But do thou, for thine own name’s sake
O God the Lord, for me:
Sith good and sweet thy mercy is,
from trouble set me free.
22 For I am poor and indigent,
afflicted sore am I,
My heart within me also is
wounded exceedingly.
23 I pass like a declining shade,
am like the locust tost:
24 My knees through fasting weaken’d are,
my flesh hath fatness lost.
25 I also am a vile reproach
unto them made to be ;
And they that did upon me look
did shake their heads at me.
26 0 do thou help and succour me,
who art my God and Lord :
And, for thy tender mercy’s sake,
safety to me afford :
27 That thereby they may know that this
is thy almighty hand ;
And that thou, Lord, hast done the same,
they may well understand.

Psalm 69:7-13
7 For I have borne reproach for thee,
my face is hid with shame.
8 To brethren strange, to mother’s sous
an alien I became.
9 Because the zeal did eat me up,
which to thine house I bear;
And the reproaches cast at thee
upon me fallen are.
10 My tears and fasts, t’ afflict my soul,
were turned to my shame.
11 When sackcloth I did wear, to them
a proverb I became.
1 2 The men that in the gate do sit
against me evil spake;
They also that vile drunkards were,
of me their song did make
13 But, in an acceptable time.
my pray’r, Lord, is to thee:
In truth of thy salvation, Lord,
and mercy great, hear me.