Psalms 69:7
It’s in your cause that I have borne taunts, and my face has been covered with shame;
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
In Context
8I became to my kindred a foreigner, to my mother’s sons a stranger.
Cross References
Psalms 22:6But I am a worm, not a person; insulted by others, despised by the people.
Psalms 44:22But in your cause it is we are killed all the day, and counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Matthew 26:67Then they spat in his face, and struck him, while others dealt blows at him, saying as they did so,
Matthew 27:38At the same time two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right, the other on the left.
Luke 23:35Meanwhile the people stood looking on. Even the leading men said with a sneer, “He saved others, let him save himself, if he is God’s Christ, his chosen one.”
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 →