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Certainly[a] zeal for[b] your house[c] consumes me;
I endure the insults of those who insult you.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:9 tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.
  2. Psalm 69:9 tn Or “devotion to.”
  3. Psalm 69:9 sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.
  4. Psalm 69:9 tn Heb “the insults of those who insult you fall upon me.”sn Jn 2:17 applies the first half of this verse to Jesus’ ministry in the context of John’s account of Jesus cleansing the temple.

for zeal for your house consumes me,(A)
    and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.(B)

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