Discovery BoxPsalms 69:9-12 
Context69:9 Certainly 1 zeal for 2 your house 3 consumes me;
I endure the insults of those who insult you. 4
69:10 I weep and refrain from eating food, 5
which causes others to insult me. 6
69:11 I wear sackcloth
and they ridicule me. 7
69:12 Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me;
drunkards mock me in their songs. 8
1 tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.
2 tn Or “devotion to.”
3 sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.
4 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.
5 sn Fasting was a practice of mourners. By refraining from normal activities such as eating food, the mourner demonstrated the sincerity of his sorrow.
6 tn Heb “and it becomes insults to me.”
7 tn Heb “and I am an object of ridicule to them.”
8 tn Heb “the mocking songs of the drinkers of beer.”
