Psalm 69 (Douay-Rheims Psalm 68) is the psalter's great cry of the righteous sufferer: 'the ZEAL OF THY HOUSE hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me' (69:9).
At the Passover, finding the Temple courts turned into a market, Jesus 'made, as it were, a scourge of little cords' and drove out the sheep and oxen and overturned the money-changers' tables: 'Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic. And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up' (John 2:15–17).
The psalm kept paying out through the Passion: its verse 21 — 'they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink' — was fulfilled on the Cross (see the catalogue's own entry), and verse 25's curse on the betrayer's habitation is applied to Judas in Acts 1:20. The apostles treated Psalm 69 as a map of the whole arc, from the whip of cords to the sponge of vinegar.