Psalms 69:11
I put on a sacke also: and I became a prouerbe vnto them.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
In Context
10I wept and my soule fasted, but that was to my reproofe.
12They that sate in the gate, spake of mee, and the drunkards sang of me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt be a wonder, a prouerbe and a common talke among all people, whither the Lord shall carie thee.
Job 17:6Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
Psalms 44:13Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.
Isaiah 20:2At the same time spake the Lord by ye hand of Isaiah the sonne of Amoz, saying, Goe, and loose the sackecloth from thy loynes, and put off thy shooe from thy foote. And he did so, walking naked and barefoote.
Jeremiah 24:9I will euen giue them for a terrible plague to all the kingdomes of the earth, and for a reproche, and for a prouerbe, for a common talke, and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.
Joel 1:13Girde your selues and lament, ye Priests: howle ye ministers of the altar: come, and lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meate offring, and the drinke offring is taken away 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 →