Psalms 69:11
When I put on a garment of sackcloth, they made me the theme of a taunt-song.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
In Context
10When I chastened myself with fasting, they took occasion to taunt me.
12Those who sit in the gate make sport of me in the music of drunken songs.
Cross References
Psalms 44:13You have made us the butt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of all round us.
Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth, and beat your breasts, priests; wail, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sack-cloth, ministers of God; for cereal-offering and drink-offering are cut off 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 →