Psalms 69:10
When I chastened myself with fasting, they took occasion to taunt me.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
In Context
9It was zeal for your house that consumed me, and the insults they hurled at you fell upon me.
11When I put on a garment of sackcloth, they made me the theme of a taunt-song.
Cross References
Psalms 35:13But when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and chastened myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed low,
Psalms 109:24My knees totter from fasting, my flesh is shrivelled and spare.
Psalms 119:139My jealousy has undone me, that my foes have forgotten 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 →