Psalm 69:11 - The Scriptures 1998

And when I put on sackcloth, I became a proverb 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 shall cut off Yisra’ĕ

Job 17:6

But He has made me a byword of the people, whereas in former times I was as a drum.

Psalm 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh grows lean from fatness.

Isaiah 20:2

at that same time יהוה  spoke by means of Yeshayahu son of Amots, saying, “Go, and remove the sackcloth from your body, and take your sandals off your feet.” And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day the Master יהוה  of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

Jeremiah 24:9

‘And I shall make them a horror to all the reigns of the earth, for evil, to be a reproach and a byword, a mockery and a curse, in all the places to which I drive them.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests. Wail, you attendants of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you attendants of my Elohim. For the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your Elohim.

Joel 1:8

Wail like a maiden girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Deuteronomy 28:37

“Thus you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a mockery among all the peoples to which יהוה  drives you.