44:16 before the vindictive enemy
who ridicules and insults me. 1
69:9 Certainly 2 zeal for 3 your house 4 consumes me;
I endure the insults of those who insult you. 5
74:10 How long, O God, will the adversary hurl insults?
Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
74:18 Remember how 6 the enemy hurls insults, O Lord, 7
and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name!
78:66 He drove his enemies back;
he made them a permanent target for insults. 8
89:51 Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults;
they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps. 9
119:39 Take away the insults that I dread! 10
Indeed, 11 your regulations are good.
1 tn Heb “from the voice of one who ridicules and insults, from the face of an enemy and an avenger.” See Ps 8:2.
2 tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.
3 tn Or “devotion to.”
4 sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.
5 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.
6 tn Heb “remember this.”
7 tn Or “[how] the enemy insults the
8 tn Heb “a permanent reproach he made them.”
9 tn Heb “[by] which your enemies, O
10 tn Heb “my reproach that I fear.”
11 tn Or “for.”