Psalms 69:11

American Standard Version (1901)

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
  • Job 17:6 : 6 But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
  • Joel 1:8 : 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
  • Joel 1:13 : 13 Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.
  • Ps 35:13-14 : 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
  • Isa 20:2 : 2 at that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 69:7-10
    4 verses
    83%

    7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face.

    8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother's children.

    9For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

    10When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.

  • 12They that sit in the gate talk of me; And [I am] the song of the drunkards.

  • Job 17:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

    7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

  • 9And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

  • Ps 35:13-15
    3 verses
    77%

    13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

    14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

    15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

  • 14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • Job 16:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

    16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • 25I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.

  • Ps 31:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

    11Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

    12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • Ps 69:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee.

    20Reproach 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.

    21They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

  • Ps 102:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.

    9For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

  • Job 30:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

    19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

  • 6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • 31Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.

  • Ps 22:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

    7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying] ,

  • 31Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

  • 28I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

  • 8For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.

  • 19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

  • 19Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

  • 21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

    19All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

  • 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

  • 3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • 3These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

  • 8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

  • 17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

  • 21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

  • 17I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.

  • 14For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.

  • 5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • 8For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.