Psalms 69:11
9 because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
10 I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
12 Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
13 But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
- KJV
- I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
- WEB
- When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
- ASV
- When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.
- DARBY
- And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.
- BLB
- I made my clothing sackcloth, and I became to them as a byword.
- ÅB
- Og jeg kledde meg i sekk, og jeg ble et ordspråk for dem.
- OTB
- Da jeg bar sekkestrie som mitt plagg,
Ble jeg et ordtak for dem. - B1930
- Og jeg gjorde sekk til mitt klædebon, og jeg blev dem til et ordsprog.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 17:6
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
Read in context1 Kings 9:7
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
Read in contextJeremiah 24:9
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:37
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Read in contextJoel 1:8
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
Read in contextIsaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
Read in contextIsaiah 20:2
the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.
Read in contextPsalms 35:13–14
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
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