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10 Zeal for your house[a] consumes me,
    and the insults directed at you fall on me.
11 When I mortified myself with fasting,
    I exposed myself to scorn.
12 When I clothed myself in sackcloth,
    I became a laughingstock.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:10 Zeal for your house: cited in Jn 2:17 with reference to Jesus. Insults directed at you: cited in Rom 15:3 as an example of Jesus’ selflessness.

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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