Psalm 69:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ They gave me also gall for my meat; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ They gave me also gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar (a soured wine) to drink. [Matt. 27:34, 48.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Common English Bible

²¹ They gave me poison for food. To quench my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 69:21 Cross References

Matthew 27:34

they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.

Luke 23:36

The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine

Mark 15:23

And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.

Matthew 27:48

At once one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink.

Mark 15:36

And someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.”

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood and giving them poisonous water to drink.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.

Deuteronomy 29:18

It may be that there is among you a man or woman or a family or tribe whose heart is already turning away from the Lord our God to serve the gods of those nations. It may be that there is among you a root sprouting poisonous and bitter growth.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: I am going to make them eat wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has no one to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; her downfall was appalling, with none to comfort her. Look, O Lord, at my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!