Psalms 69:11
\69:10\My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
In Context
12\69:11\When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.
Job 17:6He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
Psalms 44:13\44:12\You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.
Isaiah 20:2At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.
Jeremiah 24:9I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.
Joel 1:13Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.
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 →