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# the zeal of your house has eaten me up
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The writer speaks of his zeal for God's temple as if it was a wild animal that devours the writer. Alternate translation: "the zeal I have for your house consumes me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# has eaten me up
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This idiom means that the writer's zeal for the temple takes over all of his thoughts and actions. Alternate translation: "completely controls all that I think and do" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# the rebukes ... have fallen on me
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The writer speaks of the rebukes of Gods' enemies as if they were rocks that were thrown at the writer. Alternate translation: "those who rebuke you have also thrown their rebukes at me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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