New King James Version
Psalms 69:7
7Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face.
Psalms 69:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
- New International Version (NIV)For I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For I endure insults for your sake; humiliation is written all over my face.
Context of Psalms 69:7
5O God, You know my foolishness; And my sins are not hidden from You. 6Let not those who wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me; Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel. Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face. 8I have become a stranger to my brothers, And an alien to my mother’s children; 9Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
Read all of Psalms 69Psalms 69:7 word by word
כִּֽי־עָ֭לֶיךָ נָשָׂ֣אתִי חֶרְפָּ֑ה כִּסְּתָ֖ה כְלִמָּ֣ה פָנָֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 69:7
- Psalms 22:6But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
- Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Jeremiah 15:15O Lord, You know; Remember me and visit me, And take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In Your enduring patience, do not take me away. Know that for Your sake I have suffered rebuke.
- John 15:21But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
- Isaiah 50:6I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
- Isaiah 53:3He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
- Matthew 26:67Then they spat in His face and beat Him; and others struck Him with the palms of their hands,
- Matthew 27:29When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
- Luke 23:11Then Herod, with his men of war, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.
- Hebrews 12:2looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Commentaries on Psalms 69:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7For thy sake I have borne reproach - The Gentiles have said, "Why such an obstinate attachment to the worship of a Being who treats you so rigorously, and who interests not himself in your comfort and deliverance?" And in these cutting reproaches some of the ungodly Jews took a part: "I am an alien to my mother's children."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach - In thy cause; in defense of thy truth; because I have professed to be a friend of God. The true reason why these calamities have come upon me is that I have been thy professed friend, and have endeavored to do my duty to thee. The reproach connected with religion in a world of sin, or where true religion is hated, has fallen on me. Shame hath covered my face - The idea here is not that he had himself been…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-12Mistreated and abandoned by family, friends, and community, the psalmist seeks comfort, relief (Psalm 69:13–18), and justice (69:22–28) from the Lord.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
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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
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