Lecture 21

^3:61^ Sin. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.

^3:62^ Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

^3:63^ Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

65. Here he denounces his enemy’s sin.

And first, as regards the infliction of reproaches: you have heard their reproach, as if to say, “There is no need for proof.” Jerusalem, and your people are a reproach to all that are round about us (Dan 9:16).

Second, as regards their threats: the lips of them that rise up. They that sought evils to me spoke vain things (Ps 37:13).

Third, as regards their mockery and insults: their sitting down, because they sit in the assembly to ruin me; their rising up, in exaltation; their song, because they make songs to mock me.

And all this can be understood to be said in the person of the prophet or of the people, as was said above. Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword (Job 30:9). They that drank wine made me their song (Ps 68:13).