Psalm 69 (11 of 39 notes)

The Treasury of David
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

11. I made sackcloth also my garment. This David did literally, but we have no reason to believe that Jesus did. In a spiritual sense he, as one filled with grief, was always a sackcloth wearer. And I became a proverb to them. He was ridiculed as “the man of sorrows,” quoted as “the acquaintance of grief.” He might have said, “Here I and sorrow sit.” This which should have won him pity only earned him new and more general scorn. To interweave one’s name into a mocking proverb is the highest stretch of malice, and to insult one’s acts of devotion is to add profanity to cruelty.

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