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Psalms 69:9
Psalms 69:9 is verse 9 of Psalms chapter 69, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
Cited in John 2:17
Cited in Romans 15:3
King James Version
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
World English Bible
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
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Psalms 69:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
9 because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
10 I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
11 I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 119:139My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.
1 Kings 19:10“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
1 Chronicles 15:27Now David was dressed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, as well as the singers and Chenaniah, the director of music for the singers. David also wore a linen ephod.
1 Chronicles 15:28So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.
1 Chronicles 15:29As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
1 Chronicles 29:3Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:
Mark 11:15When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.
Mark 11:16And He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
Mark 11:17Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
John 2:14In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.
John 2:15So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
John 2:16To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
John 2:17His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
Psalms 89:51how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
Romans 15:3For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”