Psalm 69:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I made sackcloth also my garment; And I became a proverb to them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword (an object of scorn) to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

When I wore funeral clothes, people made fun of me.

Psalm 69:11 Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel off from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.

Job 17:6

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit.

Psalm 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.

Isaiah 20:2

at that time the Lord had spoken to Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loose the sackcloth from your loins and take your sandals off your feet,” and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horror, an evil thing, to all the kingdoms of the earth—a disgrace, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, pass the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! Grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you.