Psalms 69:7
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Psalms 69:7 in other translations
| BSB | For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face. |
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| WEB | Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. |
| ASV | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face. |
| YLT | For because of Thee I have borne reproach, Shame hath covered my face. |
| DARBY | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face. |
| BBE | I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame. |
| Webster | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. |
What does Psalms 69:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 69:7-12
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
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 69:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 69:7
- Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
- Psalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Jeremiah 15:15
O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
- Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
- Luke 23:11
And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
- John 15:21-24
But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
- Psalms 44:15
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
- Matthew 27:29-30
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
- Psalms 22:6-8
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
- Luke 23:35-37
And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar, And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
- Matthew 26:67-68
Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
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Context
- Psalms 69:6
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
- Psalms 69:7
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
- Psalms 69:8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
Psalms 69:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque por amor de ti he sufrido afrenta; confusión ha cubierto mi rostro. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Que ceux qui s’attendent à toi ne soient pas rendus honteux à cause de moi, Seigneur, Éternel des armées! Que ceux qui te cherchent ne soient pas rendus confus à cause de moi, ô Dieu d’Israël! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn deinetwegen trage ich Hohn, hat Schande bedeckt mein Antlitz. |