Psalms 69:10
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
- KJV
- When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
- WEB
- When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
- ASV
- When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.
- DARBY
- And I wept, my soul was fasting: that also was to my reproach;
- BLB
- I even wept in the fasting of my soul, and it was for a reproach to me.
- ÅB
- Og min sjel gråt mens jeg fastet, og det ble meg til spott.
- OTB
- Da jeg gråt og fastet,
Brakte det meg vanære. - B1930
- Og min sjel gråt mens jeg fastet, og det blev mig til spott.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 7:33–34
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Read in contextPsalms 109:24–25
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Read in contextPsalms 102:8–9
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
Read in contextPsalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
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