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10 Because zeal for your house has consumed me,[a]
    I am scorned by those who scorn you.(A)
11 When I humbled my spirit with fasting,(B)
    this led only to scorn.
12 When I clothed myself in sackcloth;
    I became a byword for them.

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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.

10 When I weep and fast,(A)
    I must endure scorn;
11 when I put on sackcloth,(B)
    people make sport of me.
12 Those who sit at the gate(C) mock me,
    and I am the song of the drunkards.(D)

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