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Psalm 69:7
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
5God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.
6Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord GOD of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
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“For your sake” makes the shame in this prayer harder to dismiss: devotion to God has brought the speaker reproach, with no relief yet named.
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Write on thisWhen, if ever, has devotion to God cost you someone’s respect?
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Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.Both speakers describe shame involving the face; Isaiah also names the blows, plucked hair, and spitting endured.
Jeremiah 15:15LORD, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered …Both speakers tell God they have suffered reproach for his sake, and Jeremiah adds a plea to be remembered.
Psalm 44:22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.Both prayers describe suffering for God’s sake; Psalm 69 names reproach, while Psalm 44 speaks of being killed.
2 Samuel 6:16As the LORD’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and …Psalm 69 describes reproach for God’s sake; David’s worship before the LORD draws Michal’s contempt.
Psalm 44:15All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,Both prayers describe shame covering the speaker’s face, with Psalm 44 adding that dishonor lasts all day.
Hebrews 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the …Shame appears in both passages: it covers the psalm’s speaker, while Jesus endures the cross, despising its shame.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t …Both passages describe the pain of contempt: the psalm’s speaker bears reproach, and Isaiah’s sufferer is despised and rejected.
Luke 23:11Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.The psalm names reproach and shame; Luke describes Herod and his soldiers humiliating and mocking Jesus.
John 15:21–24But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.Both passages connect mistreatment with allegiance: the psalm’s speaker suffers for God’s sake, and Jesus speaks of suffering for his name’s sake.
Psalm 22:6–8But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.Both speakers describe bearing reproach, and Psalm 22 makes the contempt explicit by naming the people who despise him.
Matthew 27:29–30They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of …The psalm describes shame borne by its speaker; Matthew depicts mockery through a crown of thorns and a false royal greeting.
Matthew 27:38–44Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.Both passages depict suffering, though Matthew’s verse names crucifixion between robbers without describing the reproach voiced in the psalm.
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Shame does not prove that God has rejected you. Here, someone bearing reproach for God’s sake still addresses him, with the humiliation left in view.
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