Psalms 69:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.

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  • Gen 19:1 : 1 And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.
  • Deut 16:18 : 18 You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
  • Job 30:8-9 : 8 They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land. 9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me. 16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.
  • Dan 5:2-4 : 2 Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them. 3 Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them. 4 They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
  • Matt 27:12-13 : 12 But when the chief priests and those in authority made statements against him, he gave no answer. 13 Then says Pilate to him, Do you give no attention to what their witnesses say against you?
  • Matt 27:20 : 20 Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.
  • Matt 27:41-42 : 41 In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said, 42 A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him.
  • Matt 27:62-63 : 62 Now on the day after the getting ready of the Passover, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate, 63 Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.
  • Mark 15:17-19 : 17 And they put a purple robe on him, and twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on him; 18 And, as if honouring him, they said, Long life to the King of the Jews! 19 And they gave him blows on the head with a stick and put shame on him and, going down on their knees, gave him worship.
  • Luke 23:2 : 2 And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.
  • Acts 4:26-27 : 26 The kings of the earth were lifted up, the rulers came together, against the Lord, and against his Christ: 27 For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 69:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

    10My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.

    11When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

  • Lam 3:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

    15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

  • Ps 69:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

    20My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

    21They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

    22Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

  • Job 30:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

    10I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

  • Job 17:6
    74%

    6He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • Ps 69:13
    73%

    13But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.

  • Ps 102:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

    9I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

  • Isa 24:9
    72%

    9There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

  • Ps 22:7
    71%

    7I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

  • Lam 3:63
    71%

    63Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.

  • Ps 69:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

    3I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

    4Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.

  • Job 29:7
    70%

    7When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

    16Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

  • Ps 38:12
    70%

    12Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

  • Ps 9:13
    70%

    13Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

  • Ps 71:10
    70%

    10For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

  • Ps 69:29
    69%

    29But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • Ps 31:11-13
    3 verses
    69%

    11Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

    12I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

    13False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

  • Job 16:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

    11God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

  • Jer 15:17
    69%

    17I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.

  • Ps 41:7
    69%

    7All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

    19All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

  • Ps 109:25
    69%

    25As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

  • Job 30:28
    69%

    28I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

  • Jer 11:19
    68%

    19But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

  • Ps 55:3
    68%

    3I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • Ps 38:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

    17My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • Joel 1:5
    68%

    5Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

  • Ps 38:6
    68%

    6I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

  • Prov 31:6
    68%

    6Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

  • Lam 3:53
    68%

    53They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

  • Jer 20:10
    68%

    10For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

  • Hos 7:5
    68%

    5On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.