Psalms 69:11
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
In Context
10When I wept in my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
12Those who sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkards.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where LORD shall lead thee away.
Job 17:6But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
Psalms 44:13Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
Isaiah 20:2at that time LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Jeremiah 24:9I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
Joel 1:13Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests. Wail, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lay all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withheld from the house of your G
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:2-13
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins… Read the whole commentary →