The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 69:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Reproach hath broken my heart. (comp. Psalms 69:7, Psalms 69:9, Psalms 69:19). Some of his enemies' reproaches were, no doubt, based on David's old misdoings. These, which he could not rebut, would cause him the severest pain.

And I am full of heaviness; or, "full of sickness;" "very sick" (Kay); "sick to death" (Delitzsch). And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. It is questioned whether David was ever without friends to pity and comfort him, and suggested that at this point he passes from narrative to prophecy, and describes, not his own condition, but that of the Messiah, whom he typified, speaking as he was moved by the Holy Ghost.

Jesus was certainly left without pity or comfort, when "all the disciples forsook him, and fled" (Matthew 26:56).

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