Psalm 69:9 {68:10}
Good News Translation
My devotion to your Temple burns in me like a fire; the insults which are hurled at you fall on me.

New Revised Standard Version
It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

Contemporary English Version
My love for your house burns in me like a fire, and when others insult you, they insulted me as well.

New American Bible
Because zeal for your house has consumed me, I am scorned by those who scorn you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

zeal

Psalm 119:139 My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words.

1 Kings 19:10 And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.

1 Chronicles 15:27-29 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that carried the ark, and the singing men, and Chonenias the ruler of the prophecy among the singers: and David also had on him an ephod of linen. . . .

1 Chronicles 29:3 Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house of my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple of my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house.

Mark 11:15-17 And they came to Jerusalem. And when he was entered into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple: and over threw the tables of the moneychangers and the chairs of them that sold doves. . . .

John 2:14-17 And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting. . . .

and the

Psalm 89:50,51 Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations: . . .

Romans 15:3 For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

Context
The Waters Are Up to My Neck
8I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother. 9For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.10And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.…
Cross References
John 2:17
And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.

Romans 15:3
For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

Psalm 89:41
All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

Psalm 89:50
Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations:

Psalm 119:139
My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words.

Isaiah 25:8
He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Psalm 69:8
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