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