Mazmur 22:7

22:7 All who see me taunt ¹  me;

they mock me ²  and shake their heads. ³ 

Mazmur 69:8-10

69:8 My own brothers treat me like a stranger;

they act as if I were a foreigner. ⁴ 

69:9 Certainly ⁵  zeal for ⁶  your house ⁷  consumes me;

I endure the insults of those who insult you. ⁸ 

69:10 I weep and refrain from eating food, ⁹ 

which causes others to insult me. ¹⁰ 

[22:7]  ¹ tn Or “scoff at, deride, mock.”

[22:7]  ² tn Heb “they separate with a lip.” Apparently this refers to their verbal taunting.

[22:7]  ³ sn Shake their heads. Apparently this refers to a taunting gesture. See also Job 16:4; Ps 109:25; Lam 2:15.

[69:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and I am estranged to my brothers, and a foreigner to the sons of my mother.”

[69:9]  ⁵ tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.

[69:9]  ⁶ tn Or “devotion to.”

[69:9]  ⁷ sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.

[69:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “the insults of those who insult you fall upon me.”

[69:9]  sn Jn 2:17 applies the first half of this verse to Jesus’ ministry in the context of John’s account of Jesus cleansing the temple.

[69:10]  ⁹ sn Fasting was a practice of mourners. By refraining from normal activities such as eating food, the mourner demonstrated the sincerity of his sorrow.

[69:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and it becomes insults to me.”