The preposition before grief denotes the theme or subject, as it does with the same verb in Ps. 2:7. To tell about it or talk of it is to make it the subject of unfeeling or derisive comment. See above, on Ps. 41:9 (8). 28 (27). Give (or place) iniquity upon iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness. Luther and others understand the first clause as a prayer that sin may be made the punishment of sin (Rom. 1:28). But there seems to be rather an allusion to the double sense of the equivocal