Psalm 69 Bible study: The zeal of your house

The title is "For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David." (69:1), and it says no more than that. One word runs through the psalm: reproach. "Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face" (69:7) (tap reproach). "For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me" (69:9). "When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach" (69:10). "You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor" (69:19). "Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness" (69:20). The WEB has the word six times in five verses. In Hebrew five of them are one noun, cherpah, and the sixth, those who reproach you (69:9), is charaf, the verb Strong's gives the noun as coming from. The Psalms have cherpah 20 times in Hebrew; five of them are in this psalm, and no other psalm has it more than twice. And the psalm says why he bears it: "for your sake" (69:7). The reproaches of 69:9 are those of "those who reproach you", and the psalmist says they "have fallen on me" (69:9).

Psalms 69:9→leads toJohn 2:17

When "The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem" (John 2:13), he "drove all out of the temple", poured out the changers' money and overturned their tables (John 2:15), and said, "Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!" (John 2:16). John writes, "His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”" (John 2:17). The psalm says, "For the zeal of your house consumes me" (Psalm 69:9). The WEB words the two differently (the zeal of your house consumes me and Zeal for your house will eat me up), and John doesn't name the psalm. John gives only this line of the psalm here.

חֶרְפָּהcherpahsay kher-PAH

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "reproach", both the "taunt of enemy" and the "reproach which rests upon one, condition of shame, disgrace". Strong's: "contumely, disgrace", and "from 2778", the verb charaf. The psalm has the noun five times: "I have borne reproach" (69:7), "The reproaches" (69:9), "that was to my reproach" (69:10), "You know my reproach" (69:19), and "Reproach has broken my heart" (69:20). The Psalms have it 20 times in Hebrew, and no other psalm has it more than twice. In 69:9 the verb is there too: those who reproach you is chorefekha, a form of charaf.