Psalms 69:11

Psalms 69:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
• New International Version (NIV)when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I also made sackcloth my garment; I became a byword to them.

Context of Psalms 69:11

9My love for your house burns inside me like a fire. Anybody who insults you, is also insulting me! 10When I weep and I stop eating food, it causes people to insult me. When I wear rough clothes to show that I am sad, people laugh at me. 12People who sit at the city gate talk about me. People who are drunk make songs to sing about me. 13But as for me, Lord, I continue to pray to you. Please answer me at the right time. Be kind to me, God, because of your faithful love. Save me, as you have promised to do.

Psalms 69:11 word by word

וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה לְבוּשִׁ֣י שָׂ֑ק וָאֱהִ֖י לָהֶ֣ם לְמָשָֽׁל׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I madeנָתַןnâthan · to give: makeH5414
• sackclothשַׂקώaq · sackclothH8242
• also my garmentלְבוּשׁlebûsh lebûsh · clothingH3830
• and I became a proverbמָשָׁלmâshâl · proverbH4912

Cross-references for Psalms 69:11

• Psalms 35:13When they were ill, I wore rough clothes, and I stopped eating food. I bent down my head as I prayed for them.
• Isaiah 20:2At that time, the Lord gave this message to Isaiah, the son of Amoz. He said, ‘Go and remove the rough clothes that you are wearing. Take your shoes off your feet.’ Isaiah did what the Lord told him to do. He walked about without clothes and without shoes.
• Isaiah 22:12At that time, the Lord Almighty told you to be very sad and weep. He told you to cut all the hair off your heads and to wear rough clothes.
• Joel 1:8Cry like a girl that no man ever loved. She is crying because her promised husband is dead.
• Psalms 44:13The people who live in countries near us do not respect us. They laugh at us and they insult us.
• Deuteronomy 28:37The Lord will send you away to live among foreign people. When they see what has happened to you, they will all see that it is terrible. They will tell stories about you and they will laugh at you.
• 1 Kings 9:7Then I will remove the Israelite people from the land that I have given to them. I will turn away from this temple that I have made a special place for people to worship me. People from all the other nations will insult the Israelites and they will laugh at them.
• Jeremiah 24:9I will send great trouble to punish them. It will make everyone afraid. The people of all the kingdoms on the earth will think that they are disgusting. People will insult them. They will use them as an example in proverbs. They will use their name as a curse. That will happen in all the places where I send my people.

Commentaries on Psalms 69:11

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11I made sackcloth also my garment - I put on sackcloth. This was often done as expressive of grief and sorrow. See Psalm 30:11, note; Psalm 35:13, note. Compare Isaiah 22:12; Daniel 9:3. In the case here referred to, this was an act of religion; an expression of penitence and humiliation. And I became a proverb to them - A jest; a subject of derision; a by-word. They ridiculed me for it. Compare 1 Kings 9:7.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-12When the psalmist denies himself normal comforts to seek God in prayer, the wicked ridicule him.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 7-127-12. This plea contemplates his relation to God as a sufferer in His cause. Reproach, domestic estrangement (Mr 3:21; Joh 7:5), exhaustion in God's service (Joh 2:17), revilings and taunts of base men were the sufferings.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 69:11

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Jesus, the Christ
• Malice
• Persecution

In the dictionaries

• Comforter
• Gall
• Psalms
• Restore
• Sink
• Standing
• Intercession
• Proverb
• Psalms, Book of
• Song

Commentaries on Psalms 69

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings