Psalms 69:9

69:9 Certainly ¹  zeal for ²  your house ³  consumes me;

I endure the insults of those who insult you. ⁴ 

Psalms 69:20

69:20 Their insults are painful ⁵  and make me lose heart; ⁶ 

I look ⁷  for sympathy, but receive none, ⁸ 

for comforters, but find none.

Psalms 123:3

123:3 Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor!

For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some. ⁹ 

[69:9]  ¹ tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.

[69:9]  ² tn Or “devotion to.”

[69:9]  ³ sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.

[69:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “the insults of those who insult you fall upon me.”

[69:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “break my heart.” The “heart” is viewed here as the origin of the psalmist’s emotions.

[69:20]  ⁶ tn The verb form appears to be a Qal preterite from an otherwise unattested root נוּשׁ (nush), which some consider an alternate form of אָנַשׁ (’anash, “be weak; be sick”; see BDB 60 s.v. I אָנַשׁ). Perhaps the form should be emended to a Niphal, וָאֵאָנְשָׁה (va’e’onshah, “and I am sick”). The Niphal of אָנַשׁ occurs in 2 Sam 12:15, where it is used to describe David’s sick child.

[69:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “wait.”

[69:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “and I wait for sympathy, but there is none.” The form נוּד (nud) is an infinitive functioning as a verbal noun:, “sympathizing.” Some suggest emending the form to a participle נָד (nad, “one who shows sympathy”). The verb נוּד (nud) also has the nuance “show sympathy” in Job 2:11; 42:11 and Isa 51:19.

[123:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “for greatly we are filled [with] humiliation.”