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For it is on your account I bear insult,
    that disgrace covers my face.(A)
I have become an outcast to my kindred,
    a stranger to my mother’s children.(B)
10 Because zeal for your house has consumed me,[a]
    I am scorned by those who scorn you.(C)
11 When I humbled my spirit with fasting,(D)
    this led only to scorn.
12 When I clothed myself in sackcloth;
    I became a byword for them.
13 Those who sit in the gate gossip about me;
    drunkards make me the butt of songs.

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Footnotes

  1. 69:10 Zeal for your house has consumed me: the psalmist’s commitment to God’s cause brings only opposition, cf. Jn 2:17. I am scorned by those who scorn you: Rom 15:3 uses the verse as an example of Jesus’ unselfishness.

I am a foreigner to my own family,
    a stranger to my own mother’s children;(A)
for zeal for your house consumes me,(B)
    and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.(C)
10 When I weep and fast,(D)
    I must endure scorn;
11 when I put on sackcloth,(E)
    people make sport of me.
12 Those who sit at the gate(F) mock me,
    and I am the song of the drunkards.(G)

13 But I pray to you, Lord,
    in the time of your favor;(H)
in your great love,(I) O God,
    answer me with your sure salvation.

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