Psalm 69:11

New American Bible - revised edition

When I humbled my spirit with fasting, this led only to scorn.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them and repudiate the house I have consecrated for my name. Israel shall become a proverb and a byword among all nations,

Job 17:6

I am made a byword of the people; I am one at whom people spit.

Psalm 109:24

My knees totter from fasting; my flesh has wasted away.

Isaiah 20:2

at that time the Lord had spoken through Isaiah, the son of Amoz: Go and take off the sackcloth from your waist, and remove the sandals from your feet. This he did, walking naked and barefoot.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord, the God of hosts, called For weeping and mourning, for shaving the head and wearing sackcloth.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all the places to which I will drive them.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests! wail, ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God! For the grain offering and the libation are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

Wail like a young woman dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Deuteronomy 28:37

and you will be a horror, a byword, a taunt among all the peoples to which the Lord will drive you. Fruitless Labors.