Psalms 69:12

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Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

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  • Gen 19:1 : 1 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.
  • Deut 16:18 : 18 Provision for Justice You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the LORD your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.
  • Job 30:8-9 : 8 Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips. 9 Job’s Indignities“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest. 16 When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.
  • Dan 5:2-4 : 2 While under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels– the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father had confiscated from the temple in Jerusalem– so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them. 3 So they brought the gold and silver vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them. 4 As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone– gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!
  • Matt 27:12-13 : 12 But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond. 13 Then Pilate said to him,“Don’t you hear how many charges they are bringing against you?”
  • Matt 27:20 : 20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.
  • Matt 27:41-42 : 41 In the same way even the chief priests– together with the experts in the law and elders– were mocking him: 42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him!
  • Matt 27:62-63 : 62 The Guard at the Tomb The next day(which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate 63 and said,“Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said,‘After three days I will rise again.’
  • Mark 15:17-19 : 17 They put a purple cloak on him and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 They began to salute him:“Hail, king of the Jews!” 19 Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.
  • Luke 23:2 : 2 They began to accuse him, saying,“We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king.”
  • Acts 4:26-27 : 26 The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.’ 27 “For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 69:9-11
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    79%

    9Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.

    10I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

    11I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.

  • Lam 3:14-15
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    76%

    14I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.

    15He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

  • Ps 69:20-22
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    74%

    20Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

    21They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

    22May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

  • Job 30:9-10
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    74%

    9Job’s Indignities“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

    10They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

  • Job 17:6
    74%

    6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

  • Ps 69:13
    73%

    13O LORD, may you hear my prayer and be favorably disposed to me! O God, because of your great loyal love, answer me with your faithful deliverance!

  • Ps 102:8-9
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    72%

    8All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.

    9For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

  • Isa 24:9
    72%

    9They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

  • Ps 22:7
    71%

    7All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

  • Lam 3:63
    71%

    63Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs.

  • Ps 69:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2I sink into the deep mire where there is no solid ground; I am in deep water, and the current overpowers me.

    3I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

    4Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, my enemies for no reason, outnumber me. They make me repay what I did not steal!

  • Job 29:7
    70%

    7When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,

  • Ps 35:15-16
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    70%

    15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

    16When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.

  • Ps 38:12
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    12Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.

  • Ps 9:13
    70%

    13when they prayed:“Have mercy on me, LORD! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, O one who can snatch me away from the gates of death!

  • Ps 71:10
    70%

    10For my enemies talk about me; those waiting for a chance to kill me plot my demise.

  • Ps 69:29
    69%

    29I am oppressed and suffering! O God, deliver and protect me!

  • Lam 1:21-22
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    69%

    21ש(Sin/Shin) They have heard that I groan, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have brought it about. Bring about the day of judgment that you promised so that they may end up like me!

    22ת(Tav) Let all their wickedness come before you; afflict them just as you have afflicted me because of all my acts of rebellion. For my groans are many, and my heart is sick with sorrow.

  • Ps 31:11-13
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    69%

    11Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.

    12I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.

    13For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.

  • Job 16:10-11
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    69%

    10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

    11God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.

  • Jer 15:17
    69%

    17I did not spend my time in the company of other people, laughing and having a good time. I stayed to myself because I felt obligated to you and because I was filled with anger at what they had done.

  • Ps 41:7
    69%

    7All who hate me whisper insults about me to one another; they plan ways to harm me.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    69%

    18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

    19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

  • Ps 109:25
    69%

    25I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.

  • Job 30:28
    69%

    28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.

  • Jer 11:19
    68%

    19Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying,“Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”

  • Ps 55:3
    68%

    3because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.

  • Ps 38:16-17
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    68%

    16I have prayed for deliverance, because otherwise they will gloat over me; when my foot slips they will arrogantly taunt me.

    17For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

  • Ps 38:6
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    6I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.

  • Prov 31:6
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    6Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed;

  • Lam 3:53
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    53They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.

  • Jer 20:10
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    10I hear many whispering words of intrigue against me. Those who would cause me terror are everywhere! They are saying,“Come on, let’s publicly denounce him!” All my so-called friends are just watching for something that would lead to my downfall. They say,“Perhaps he can be enticed into slipping up, so we can prevail over him and get our revenge on him.

  • Hos 7:5
    68%

    5At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers.