Psalms 69:11
(69:12) And when I made sackcloth my garment, I became a proverb to them.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
In Context
10(69:11) When I wept at the fasting of my soul, it became a reproach to me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all the nations whither the Lord will lead thee.
Job 17:6And he hath placed me here as a by-word unto nations; and I become openly as a place of abomination.
Psalms 44:13(44:14) Thou renderest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are round about us.
Isaiah 20:2At the same time spoke the Lord by means of Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loosen the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thy shoe shalt thou pull off from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Jeremiah 24:9And I will make them a horror because of [their] mishaps unto all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and a proverb, a byword and a curse, in all the places whither I will drive them.
Joel 1:13Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar: come, remain all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God; for there are withholden from the house of your God the meat-offering and the drink-offering.
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 →