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Psalms 69:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. "

Psalms 69:9

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7 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

10 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

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Psalms 102:10

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"because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away."

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Psalms 109:25

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Lamentations 3:61

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John 2:17

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"His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”"

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Jeremiah 12:7

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"“I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies."

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Romans 15:3

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"For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”"

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Psalms 69:1

"Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!"

Psalms 69:2

"I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me."

Psalms 69:3

"I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God."

Psalms 69:4

"Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away."

Psalms 69:5

"God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you."

Psalms 69:6

"Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord GOD of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel."

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