| Geneva Study Bible For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. Wesley's Notes 69:26 For - Which is an act of barbarous cruelty. Talk - Reproaching them, and triumphing in their calamities. King James Translators' Notes those...: Heb. thy wounded Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 26. Though smitten of God (Isa 53:4), men were not less guilty in persecuting the sufferer (Ac 2:23). talk to the grief-in respect to, about it, implying derision and taunts. wounded-or, literally, "mortally wounded." Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 69:22-29 These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verses 22,23, are applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews, in Ro 11:9,10. When the supports of life and delights of sense, through the corruption of our nature, are made the food and fuel of sin, then our table is a snare. Their sin was, that they would not see, but shut their eyes against the light, loving darkness rather; their punishment was, that they should not see, but should be given up to their own hearts' lusts which hardened them. Those who reject God's great salvation proffered to them, may justly fear that his indignation will be poured out upon them. If men will sin, the Lord will reckon for it. But those that have multiplied to sin, may yet find mercy, through the righteousness of the Mediator. God shuts not out any from that righteousness; the gospel excludes none who do not, by unbelief, shut themselves out. But those who are proud and self-willed, so that they will not come in to God's righteousness, shall have their doom accordingly; they themselves decide it. Let those not expect any benefit thereby, who are not glad to be beholden to it. It is better to be poor and sorrowful, with the blessing of the Lord, than rich and jovial, and under his curse. This may be applied to Christ. He was, when on earth, a man of sorrows that had not where to lay his head; but God exalted him. Let us call upon the Lord, and though poor and sorrowful, guilty and defiled, his salvation will set us up on high. | 
