Psalms 69:9

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Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 15:3 : 3 For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written,“The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal consumes me, for my enemies forget your instructions.
  • John 2:14-17 : 14 He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables. 15 So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold the doves he said,“Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written,“Zeal for your house will devour me.”
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people! 51 Your enemies, O LORD, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.
  • Mark 11:15-17 : 15 Cleansing the Temple Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, 16 and he would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 Then he began to teach them and said,“Is it not written:‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”
  • 1 Kgs 19:10 : 10 He answered,“I have been absolutely loyal to the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, even though the Israelites have abandoned the covenant they made with you, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.”
  • 1 Chr 15:27-29 : 27 David was wrapped in a linen robe, as were all the Levites carrying the ark, the musicians, and Kenaniah the supervisor of transport and the musicians; David also wore a linen ephod. 28 All Israel brought up the ark of the LORD’s covenant; they were shouting, blowing trumpets, sounding cymbals, and playing stringed instruments. 29 As the ark of the LORD’s covenant entered the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked out the window. When she saw King David jumping and celebrating, she despised him.
  • 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 Now, to show my commitment to the temple of my God, I donate my personal treasure of gold and silver to the temple of my God, in addition to all that I have already supplied for this holy temple.
  • Ps 89:41 : 41 All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 69:10-12
    3 verses
    83%

    10I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

    11I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.

    12Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

  • Ps 69:6-8
    3 verses
    81%

    6Let none who rely on you be disgraced because of me, O Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies! Let none who seek you be ashamed because of me, O God of Israel!

    7For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.

    8My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

  • John 2:17
    79%

    17His disciples remembered that it was written,“Zeal for your house will devour me.”

  • Ps 69:17-21
    5 verses
    76%

    17Do not ignore your servant, for I am in trouble! Answer me right away!

    18Come near me and redeem me! Because of my enemies, rescue me!

    19You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced; you can see all my enemies.

    20Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

    21They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

  • Ps 119:139
    76%

    139My zeal consumes me, for my enemies forget your instructions.

  • Ps 89:50-51
    2 verses
    74%

    50Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!

    51Your enemies, O LORD, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.

  • Ps 102:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

    8All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.

    9For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

    10because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.

  • Ps 119:22
    72%

    22Spare me shame and humiliation, for I observe your rules.

  • Ps 109:25
    72%

    25I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.

  • Ps 69:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

    4Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, my enemies for no reason, outnumber me. They make me repay what I did not steal!

  • Ps 31:11
    71%

    11Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.

  • Job 19:3
    71%

    3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

  • Ps 44:16
    71%

    16before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me.

  • Ps 71:13
    71%

    13May my accusers be humiliated and defeated! May those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace!

  • Job 16:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

    10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

  • Jer 15:15-17
    3 verses
    70%

    15I said,“LORD, you know how I suffer. Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.

    16As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies.

    17I did not spend my time in the company of other people, laughing and having a good time. I stayed to myself because I felt obligated to you and because I was filled with anger at what they had done.

  • Ps 31:9
    70%

    9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

    19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

  • Ps 69:26
    70%

    26For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.

  • Ps 39:10
    70%

    10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

  • Ps 79:4
    70%

    4We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

  • Ps 119:42
    69%

    42Then I will have a reply for the one who insults me, for I trust in your word.

  • Job 19:15
    69%

    15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

  • Jer 20:8
    69%

    8For whenever I prophesy, I must cry out,“Violence and destruction are coming!” This message from the LORD has made me an object of continual insults and derision.

  • Ps 22:6
    69%

    6But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

  • Isa 64:11
    69%

    11Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.

  • Lam 1:13
    69%

    13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.

  • Ps 79:12
    69%

    12Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

  • Ps 35:15
    69%

    15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

  • Job 19:22
    69%

    22Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?

  • Lam 3:14
    68%

    14I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.

  • Ps 89:41
    68%

    41All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

  • Ps 109:22
    68%

    22For I am oppressed and needy, and my heart beats violently within me.

  • Ps 143:4
    68%

    4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.