Psalms 69:9

“For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.”

Psalms 69:9 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Quotation · John 2:17

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Where the Hebrew says “has consumed me,” John says “will consume me,” in the future.

Formula: ἐμνήσθησαν οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ὅτι γεγραμμένον ἐστίν “his disciples remembered that it is written” (John 2:17)

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Greek of the New Testament: ἐμνήσθησαν οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ὅτι γεγραμμένον ἐστίν Ὁ ζῆλος τοῦ οἴκου σου καταφάγεταί με

Hebrew (Masoretic text): כִּי קִנְאַת בֵּיתְךָ אֲכָלָתְנִי וְחֶרְפּוֹת חוֹרְפֶיךָ נָפְלוּ עָלָי

Septuagint (Psalms 68:10 in the Septuagint numbering): ὅτι ὁ ζῆλος τοῦ οἴκου σου καταφάγεταί με, καὶ οἱ ὀνειδισμοὶ τῶν ὀνειδιζόντων σε ἐπέπεσαν ἐπʼ ἐμέ.

The Greek of the NT matches the Septuagint word for word in 7 consecutive words: “Ὁ ζῆλος τοῦ οἴκου σου καταφάγεταί με.”

Septuagint, Swete’s text, First1KGreek transcription (with reading errors), CC BY-SA 4.0

Quotation · Romans 15:3

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Paul quotes the second half of Psalm 69:9 and applies it to the Messiah.

Formula: καθὼς γέγραπται “as it is written” (Romans 15:3)

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Greek of the New Testament: καὶ γὰρ ὁ Χριστὸς οὐχ ἑαυτῷ ἤρεσεν ἀλλὰ καθὼς γέγραπται Οἱ ὀνειδισμοὶ τῶν ὀνειδιζόντων σε ἐπέπεσαν ἐπ’ ἐμέ

Hebrew (Masoretic text): כִּי קִנְאַת בֵּיתְךָ אֲכָלָתְנִי וְחֶרְפּוֹת חוֹרְפֶיךָ נָפְלוּ עָלָי

Septuagint (Psalms 68:10 in the Septuagint numbering): ὅτι ὁ ζῆλος τοῦ οἴκου σου καταφάγεταί με, καὶ οἱ ὀνειδισμοὶ τῶν ὀνειδιζόντων σε ἐπέπεσαν ἐπʼ ἐμέ.

The Greek of the NT matches the Septuagint word for word in 6 consecutive words: “Οἱ ὀνειδισμοὶ τῶν ὀνειδιζόντων σε ἐπέπεσαν.”

Septuagint, Swete’s text, First1KGreek transcription (with reading errors), CC BY-SA 4.0

Psalms 69:9, word by word

zealקִנְאַתkinat

zeal

Fervor to defend what one loves.

Where else “kinat” appears
for your houseבֵּיתְbet

temple

The temple: "the house of YHWH".

Where else “bet” appears
has consumed meאֲכָלָתְachalat

devour

Literally "eat": to destroy something, as fire burns everything up.

Where else “achalat” appears
and the reproachesחֶרְפּוֹתcherpot

disgrace, reproach

Disgrace, reproach, scorn from others. Being childless was then felt as a humiliation.

Where else “cherpot” appears
of those who reproach youחוֹרְפֶיchorfe

reproach

To defy or humble someone with words, to put them to shame.

Where else “chorfe” appears
have fallenנָפְלוּnaflu

fall

To fall to the ground, or for a city to fall.

Where else “naflu” appears

Translation note

The first half is quoted in John 2:17; the second, in Romans 15:3.

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Quotation · John 2:17

Where the Hebrew says “has consumed me,” John says “will consume me,” in the future.

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Psalms 69:9

9For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

John 2:17

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

Quotation · Romans 15:3

Paul quotes the second half of Psalm 69:9 and applies it to the Messiah.

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Psalms 69:9

9For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Romans 15:3

3For even the Messiah did not please himself, but, as it is written: The insults of those who insult you fell on me.

The context

8A stranger I have become to my brothers, and a foreigner to the sons of my mother.

9 · This verse (above)

10And I wept in fasting of my soul, and it became reproaches to me.

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