68:3. I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.
68:4. I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.
68:5. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.
I pay that which I took not away… Christ in his passion made restitution of what he had not taken away, by suffering the punishment due to our sins, and so repairing the injury we had done to God.
68:6. O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:
My foolishness and my offences… which my enemies impute to me: or the follies and sins of men, which I have taken upon myself.
68:7. Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.
68:8. Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
68:9. I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.
68:10. For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.