Psalms Chapter 69 verse 21 Holy Bible
They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.
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Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
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They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
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And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - They gave me also gall for my meat. Here, at any rate, the psalmist is inspired to be Messianic, i.e. to use words which, while they can only be applied to himself metaphorically and loosely, are in the strictest and most literal sense applicable to Christ. Gall was actually mingled with the drink which was given to Christ just before he was crucified, and which he tasted, but would not swallow (Matthew 27:34). And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Similarly, when upon the cress Christ uttered the words, "I thirst," those who stood by "filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his month. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished; and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost" (John 19:29, 30); comp. Psalm 22:16-18, where little facts, not true of David, but true of Christ, are recorded of an afflicted one, who partly represents David, partly his great Descendant.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) Gall.--Heb., rosh, i.e., head. (Comp. poppy heads. See Deuteronomy 32:32.) In Hosea 10:4 it is translated hemlock, but is most probably the poppy (papaver arenarium), which grows everywhere in Palestine, and answers all the conditions. The rendering, gall, comes from the LXX.Vinegar.--Sour wine would not be rejected as unpalatable (see Note Ruth 2:14). It was forbidden to Nazarites as a luxury (Numbers 6:3). Was the author of the psalm possibly a Nazarite? or are the expressions in the psalm merely figurative. Comp."The banquet where the meats becameAs wormwood." . . .
