Psalms 69:25

Let their habitation be desolate,.... Which is applied to Judas, Act 1:20; but not to the exclusion of others; for it must be understood of the habitations of others; even of their princes and nobles,…

Let their habitation be desolate - Margin, “their palace.” The Hebrew word means properly a wall; then, a fortress or castle; and then it means also a nomadic encampment, a rustic village, a…

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…

their habitation Rather, as R.V. marg., their encampment; cp. Gen 25:16; Num 31:10; Eze 25:4 (R.V.). The language is a survival from the habits of nomad life, with which however the Israelites must…