What was Israel doing at God's table?
Israel was feasting at God's table, receiving all the blessings and ramifications of that exalted position. Yet that very privilege became a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a recompense, causing them to fall. Instead of blessing, it led to their downfall.
Les explains that the psalmist's reference to "their table" is God's table. Israel was literally feasting at God's table, and they were getting all the blessings and the ramifications of it. But that exalted position of literally sitting at God's table became a snare, and a recompense, and it caused them to fall. Les calls it a horror of horrors. He also warns Gentiles of much the same thing, that we better not take all these blessings and this grace for granted, for the day is coming when it will be taken from us.
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
More Questions
What was Israel's position at God's table according to Romans 11?
Israel was literally feasting at God's table and receiving all the blessings and the ramifications of that place.
What table was the psalmist referring to in "let their table be made a snare"?
The "table" the psalmist spoke of when he said "let their table be made a snare" was God's table, the same table pictured in the Shepherd's Psalm where God prepares a table before his own.