Psalms 69:10
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
In Context
11I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
Cross References
Psalms 35:13Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
Psalms 109:24My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
Psalms 119:139My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.
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 →