Discovery BoxPsalms 69:7-9 
Context69:7 For I suffer 1 humiliation for your sake 2
and am thoroughly disgraced. 3
69:8 My own brothers treat me like a stranger;
they act as if I were a foreigner. 4
69:9 Certainly 5 zeal for 6 your house 7 consumes me;
I endure the insults of those who insult you. 8
1 tn Heb “carry, bear.”
2 tn Heb “on account of you.”
3 tn Heb “and shame covers my face.”
4 tn Heb “and I am estranged to my brothers, and a foreigner to the sons of my mother.”
5 tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.
6 tn Or “devotion to.”
7 sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.
8 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.
