Psalm 69:11

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 24:9

I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

1 Kings 9:7

then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Job 17:6

But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests. Wail, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lay all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withheld from the house of your G

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Isaiah 22:12

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

Isaiah 20:2

at that time LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Deuteronomy 28:37

And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where LORD shall lead thee away.

Psalm 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness.