Psalm 119:139 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

My zeal consumes me because my foes forget your words.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

My zeal has consumed me and cut me off, because my adversaries have forgotten Your words.

American Standard Version (1901)

My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine adversaries have forgotten thy words.

Common English Bible

Anger consumes me because my enemies have forgotten what you’ve said.

Psalm 119:139 Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”

1 Kings 19:14

He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”

Psalm 53:4

Have they no knowledge, those evildoers, who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon God?

Psalm 69:10

When I humbled my soul with fasting, they insulted me for doing so.

Psalm 69:9

It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

Matthew 21:13

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of robbers.”

Matthew 21:16

and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise for yourself’?”

Matthew 21:42

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes’?

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered them, “You are wrong because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

Matthew 9:13

Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.”

John 2:17

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

Acts 13:27

Because the residents of Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize him or understand the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, they fulfilled those words by condemning him.