My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
My zeal hath consumed me - (Psalms 69:9 .) because mine enemies have forgotten thy words - not from defect of memory, but wilfully acting as if they had no remembrance of them. This afflicts and consumes me more than the evils which I suffer from them. 'Who in our days tortures himself about public evils and sins?' (Muis.)