Psalms 69:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וָאֶבְכֶּ֣ה בַצּ֣וֹם נַפְשִׁ֑י וַתְּהִ֖י לַחֲרָפ֣וֹת לִֽי׃

Transliteration

And-'eḇkeh in-the-ṣôm napšî and-tĕhî to-ḥărāpôt to-me

Grammar Details

*'eḇkeh*: Qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 1st person singular - and I wept
*ṣôm*: masculine singular noun with prefixed preposition ba and definite article - in the fasting
*napšî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*tĕhî*: Qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person feminine singular - and it became
*ḥărāpôt*: feminine plural noun with prefixed preposition lĕ - for reproaches

Word Meanings

*'eḇkeh*: I wept/I cried
*ṣôm*: fast/fasting
*napšî*: my soul/my life/myself
*tĕhî*: it became/it was
*ḥărāpôt*: reproaches/insults/taunts

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

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:

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