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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)

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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.

III

14 But I will pray to you, Lord,
    at a favorable time.
God, in your abundant kindness, answer me
    with your sure deliverance.(A)

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17 Answer me, Lord, in your generous love;
    in your great mercy turn to me.

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33 “See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
    you who seek God, take heart!(A)
34 For the Lord hears the poor,
    and does not spurn those in bondage.
35 Let the heaven and the earth praise him,
    the seas and whatever moves in them!”

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