Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 89:50

50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people .

i. e. We thy servants, as he now said; our King and his people; of whom he speaks as of one person, as is very usual in holy Scripture. Or, the Psalmist sheweth how particularly and passionately he resented those reproaches which were cast upon their King and Kingdom, as if they were cast upon himself.

This phrase may denote either first the multitude of these reproaches, things being said to be given or recieved into a mans bosom, which are given or received in great plenty, as Isa. 65. 6. Luke 6. 38. Or secondly their grievousness, that they pierced him to the very heart, which is sometimes called the bosom, as Eccl. 7. 9.

Of the great Potentates and Princes of the World who now reproached the House of David with their vain and confident boasting of the everlastingness of their Kingdom, which was now in a desperate and lost condition. Or, all the reproaches of many people.

Marginal references: Numb. 11. 12.