Psalm 69:11

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

Then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and this house I have hallowed for My Name (renown) I will cast from My sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all the peoples.

Job 17:6

But He has made me a byword among the people, and they spit before my face.

Psalm 109:24

My knees are weak and totter from fasting; and my body is gaunt and has no fatness.

Isaiah 20:2

At that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, Go, loose the sackcloth from off your loins and take your shoes off your feet. And he had done so, walking around stripped [to his loincloth] and barefoot.

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping and mourning, to the shaving off of all your hair [in humiliation] and to the girding with sackcloth.

Jeremiah 24:9

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

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my [Joel's] God, for the cereal or meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin [bride] girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth [who has died].

Deuteronomy 28:37

And you shall become an amazement, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to which the Lord will lead you.