Psalms 69:7-12

69:7 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 

69:10 I weep and refrain from eating food, ⁹ 

which causes others to insult me. ¹⁰ 

69:11 I wear sackcloth

and they ridicule me. ¹¹ 

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

drunkards mock me in their songs. ¹² 

[69:7]  ¹ tn Heb “carry, bear.”

[69:7]  ² tn Heb “on account of you.”

[69:7]  ³ tn Heb “and shame covers my face.”

[69:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and I am estranged to my brothers, and a foreigner to the sons of my mother.”

[69:9]  ⁷ tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.

[69:9]  ⁸ tn Or “devotion to.”

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

[69:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the insults of those who insult you fall upon me.”

[69:10]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and it becomes insults to me.”

[69:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “and I am an object of ridicule to them.”

[69:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the mocking songs of the drinkers of beer.”