Psalms 69:20

18 Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.

19 You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

21 They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

22 May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
KJV
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
WEB
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
ASV
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
DARBY
Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
BLB
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am sick. And I looked for a bemoaner, and there was none, and for comforters, and I found none.
ÅB
Spott har brutt mitt hjerte, så jeg er syk, og jeg ventet på medynk, men der var ingen, på trøstere, men jeg fant ikke noen.
OTB
Vanære har brutt mitt hjerte, og jeg er så svak.
Og jeg så etter medfølelse, men det var ingen,
Og etter trøstere, men jeg fant ingen.
B1930
Spott har brutt mitt hjerte, så jeg er syk, og jeg ventet på medynk, men der var ingen, på trøstere, men jeg fant ikke nogen.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 63:5

    I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

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  • Job 16:2

    “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

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  • Psalms 142:4

    Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

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  • Mark 14:50

    Then everyone deserted Him and fled.

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  • Matthew 26:56

    But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

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  • John 12:27

    Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.

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  • John 16:32

    “Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

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  • 2 Timothy 4:16–17

    At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

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