Psalms 69:11
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Psalms 69:11 in other translations
| BSB | I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them. |
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| WEB | When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. |
| ASV | When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them. |
| YLT | And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile. |
| DARBY | And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them. |
| BBE | When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me. |
| Webster | I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. |
What does Psalms 69:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 69:7-12
7-12. This plea contemplates his relation to God as a sufferer in His cause. Reproach, domestic estrangement (Mr 3:21; Joh 7:5), exhaustion in God's service (Joh 2:17), revilings and taunts of base men were the sufferings.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 69:1-12
We should frequently consider the person of the Sufferer here spoken of, and ask why, as well as what he suffered, that, meditating thereon, we may be more humbled for sin, and more convinced of our danger, so that we may feel more gratitude and love, constraining us to live to His glory who died for our salvation. Hence we learn, when in affliction, to commit the keeping of our souls to God, that we may not be…
Psalms 69:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 69:11
- Job 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
- 1 Kings 9:7
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
- Jeremiah 24:9
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
- Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
- Joel 1:8
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
- Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Isaiah 20:2
At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
- Psalms 35:13-14
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
- Psalms 44:13-14
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
- Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
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Context
- Psalms 69:10
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
- Psalms 69:11
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
- Psalms 69:12
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Psalms 69:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Puse además saco por mi vestido; y vine á serles por proverbio. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et j’ai pleuré, mon âme était dans le jeûne; et cela m’a été en opprobre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Als ich mich in Sacktuch kleidete, da ward ich ihnen zum Sprichwort. |