Psalm 119:139

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

My zeal consumes me because my foes forget your words.

Cross References

John 2:17

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

Psalm 69:9

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

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.”

Matthew 22:29

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

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 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 21:13

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 9:13

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

Psalm 53:4

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

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 69:10

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