Psalms 69:11
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
In Context
10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
Job 17:6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in old times I was as a timbrel.
Psalms 44:13You make us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Isaiah 20:2At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put off your shoe from your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Jeremiah 24:9And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
Joel 1:13Gird yourselves, and lament, all of you priests: wail, all of you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, all of you ministers of my God: for the food offering and the drink offering is withheld 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 →