Psalm 69:23
Hebrew Bible
21 They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink. 22 May their dining table become a trap before them. May it be a snare for that group of friends. 23 May their eyes be blinded. Make them shake violently. 24 Pour out your judgment on them. May your raging anger overtake them. 25 May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited.
Date: 6th-3rd Centuries B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Psalms 68:24
Septuagint
21 My soul expected reproach and misery. And I waited upon the one hurting with me, and he did not exist, and for one to comfort me, but I found none. 22 And they gave gall for my food, and they gave me vinegar for my drink. 23 Let their table become before them a trap and a repayment and a stumbling block. 24 Let their eyes be darkened that they would not see. Through everything bend their back. 25 Pour out your wrath upon them, and may the rage of your wrath seize upon them.
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... As was the case in Romans 10:19-21, so also here each passage plays an important role in shaping Paul’s reading of the other. By means of Isaiah’s (“spirit of stupor”), Paul transmutes Moses’ lament that God has not yet granted Israel an understanding heart into the much stronger claim that God has, in fact, directly caused Israel’s spiritual insensibility. (The wording “eyes such as do not see ... ears such as do not hear” may reflect Paul’s desire to connect this citation with the words of “David” that follow in Romans 11:9-10 (compare Romans 11:10 / Psalm 68:24 LXX) And it is Deuteronomy’s insistence that their blindness persists “to the present day” that gives Paul interpretive leverage to read the description of Isaiah’s opponents in Isaiah 29:10 as a diagnosis of his contemporaries’ failure to believe the gospel ..."
Wagner, J. Ross
"Moses and Isaiah In Concert: Paul's reading of Isaiah and Deuteronomy in the Letter to the Romans" in McGinnis, Claire Mathews, and Patricia K. Tull (eds.) "As Those Who Are Taught": The Interpretation of Isaiah from the LXX to the SBL
(pp. 87-105) Society of Biblical Literature, 2006
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