Psalms 69:21
Reproach hath broken my lev; and I have sickness as unto death; 1 and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; 1 and for menachamim (comforters), but I found none. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:18And it come to pass, when he heareth the divrei haalah (words of this oath, imprecation) that he bless himself in his lev, saying, Shalom be with me, though I walk in the stubbornness of mine lev — thus bringing disaster on both the watered and the thirsty.
Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? 1 Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, 1 and let us perish there; 1 for Hashem Eloheinu hath made us to perish, 1 and given us mey rosh (poisonous water) to drink, 1 because we have sinned against Hashem. 1
Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus saith Hashem Tzva'os concerning the nevi'im; 1 Hineni, I will feed them with wormwood, 1 and make them drink the bitter water of gall; 1 for from the nevi'im of Yerushalayim is chanupah (profaneness) gone forth into kol ha'aretz. 1
Lamentations 1:9Her filthiness is in her skirts; 1 she remembereth not her latter end; 1 therefore she sank appallingly; 1 she had no Menachem (comforter). 1 O Hashem, behold my affliction; 1 for the enemy hath triumphed. 1
Matthew 27:48And immediately one of them ran and, taking a sponge, filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed and gave him a drink.
Mark 15:36And someone having run and having filled a sponge with CHOMETZ + 15:36 Ps 69:21 (vinegar), and having placed it on a staff, gave a drink to him, saying, Leave him alone. Let us see if Eliyahu Hanavi comes to take him down.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:14-22
Complaints and Petitions. 13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord , in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16 Hear me, O Lord ; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy… Read the whole commentary →