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though I am mocked and cursed and shamed for your sake. Even my own brothers pretend they don’t know me! My zeal for God and his work[a] burns hot within me. And because I advocate your cause, your enemies insult me even as they insult you.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:9 for God and his work, literally, “for your house.”

For I endure scorn(A) for your sake,(B)
    and shame covers my face.(C)
I am a foreigner to my own family,
    a stranger to my own mother’s children;(D)
for zeal for your house consumes me,(E)
    and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.(F)

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