Psalms 44:16

44:16 before the vindictive enemy

who ridicules and insults me.

Psalms 69:9

69:9 Certainly zeal for your house consumes me;

I endure the insults of those who insult you.

Psalms 74:10

74:10 How long, O God, will the adversary hurl insults?

Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Psalms 74:18

74:18 Remember how the enemy hurls insults, O Lord,

and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name!

Psalms 78:66

78:66 He drove his enemies back;

he made them a permanent target for insults.

Psalms 89:51

89:51 Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults;

they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.

Psalms 119:39

119:39 Take away the insults that I dread! 10 

Indeed, 11  your regulations are good.


tn Heb “from the voice of one who ridicules and insults, from the face of an enemy and an avenger.” See Ps 8:2.

tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.

tn Or “devotion to.”

sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.

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.

tn Heb “remember this.”

tn Or “[how] the enemy insults the Lord.”

tn Heb “a permanent reproach he made them.”

tn Heb “[by] which your enemies, O Lord, taunt, [by] which they taunt [at] the heels of your anointed one.”

10 tn Heb “my reproach that I fear.”

11 tn Or “for.”