Psalms 69:9
For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach thee have fallen upon me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's sons.
10When I wept in my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:27And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song [with] the singers. And David had upon him an ephod of linen.
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Psalms 89:41All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Psalms 119:139My zeal has consumed me, because my adversaries have forgotten thy words.
John 2:14And he found sitting in the temple those who sell oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:2-13
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins… Read the whole commentary →