Mazmur 69:8-12

69:8 My own brothers treat me like a stranger;

they act as if I were a foreigner. ¹ 

69:9 Certainly ²  zeal for ³  your house ⁴  consumes me;

I endure the insults of those who insult you. ⁵ 

69:10 I weep and refrain from eating food, ⁶ 

which causes others to insult me. ⁷ 

69:11 I wear sackcloth

and they ridicule me. ⁸ 

69:12 Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me;

drunkards mock me in their songs. ⁹ 

[69:8]  ¹ tn Heb “and I am estranged to my brothers, and a foreigner to the sons of my mother.”

[69:9]  ² tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.

[69:9]  ³ tn Or “devotion to.”

[69:9]  ⁴ sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.

[69:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “the insults of those who insult you fall upon me.”

[69:9]  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.

[69:10]  ⁶ sn Fasting was a practice of mourners. By refraining from normal activities such as eating food, the mourner demonstrated the sincerity of his sorrow.

[69:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and it becomes insults to me.”

[69:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “and I am an object of ridicule to them.”

[69:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “the mocking songs of the drinkers of beer.”