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Pentecost Season · Proper 7 · Year A

Psalm 69:7-10, (11-15), 16-18

Zeal for Your House; A Cry for Rescue

June 21, 2026

Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple, El Greco
Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple, El Greco, c. 1570The National Gallery, London
An early El Greco from his Italian years, still Venetian in colour. The cleansing happens in a classical portico, with portraits of Titian and Michelangelo in the corner.It is zeal for your house that has consumed me: Psalm 69 is the verse the disciples remembered while watching this.El GrecoA Cretan icon painter who trained in Venice and settled in Toledo, where he stretched his figures into something no other century has imitated successfully.The National Gallery, LondonFounded in 1824 with thirty-eight pictures bought from a banker's estate, and still free to enter, as its founders insisted.The National Gallery, London
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelMatt. 10:24-39Mt 10:24-39
EpistleRom. 6:1b-11Rom 6:1b-11
Old TestamentGen. 21:8-21Gn 21:8-21Alt. OTJer. 20:7-13Jer 20:7-13
PsalterPs. 86:1-10, 16-17Ps 86:1-10, 16-17Alt. PsalmPs. 69:7-10, (11-15), 16-18Ps 69:7-10, (11-15), 16-18

Overview & Insights

"It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me." (Psalm 69:9)

A lament in which the psalmist suffers reproach and estrangement for God's sake. He pleads for God's steadfast love and swift deliverance from those who hate him.

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Commentary

Commentary on Psalm 69:7-10, 16-18Commentary on Ps 69:7-10, 16-18 Working Preacher

Lectionary commentary on suffering for piety and the cry for God's rescue.

Psalm 69 CommentaryPs 69 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse notes on this lament quoted often in the New Testament.

Psalm 69:7 CommentariesPs 69:7 Commentaries BibleHub

Classic commentaries collected for bearing reproach for God's sake.

Background & Word Study

Psalm 69:7 InterlinearPs 69:7 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew text and word study for reproach, zeal, and steadfast love.

Psalm 69 in HebrewPs 69 in Hebrew Sefaria

Hebrew and English with Jewish commentary for this psalm of David.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Psalm 69Catena: Ps 69 Catena

Patristic comment on zeal for God's house, applied to Christ.

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