Psalms 69:9
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
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In Context
8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
10When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:27David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him.
Job 19:13“He has put my brothers far from me. 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 wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
John 2:14He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
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 →