Psalm 69:11 “I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.”

Psalm 69:11

I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

I put on a sacke also: and I became a prouerbe vnto them.

Darby Translation

And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.

Young's Literal Translation

And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile.

Bible in Basic English

When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

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Cross references

“I made”

Isaiah 20:2 Isaiah 22:12 Joel 1:8 Joel 1:13 Psalm 35:13 Psalm 35:14

Isaiah 20:2 · BSB

the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.

Isaiah 22:12 · BSB

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

Joel 1:8 · BSB

Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

Joel 1:13 · BSB

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Psalm 35:13 · BSB

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Psalm 35:14 · BSB

I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

“I became”

1 Kings 9:7 Jeremiah 24:9 Deuteronomy 28:37 Psalm 44:13 Psalm 44:14

1 Kings 9:7 · BSB

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

Jeremiah 24:9 · BSB

I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

Deuteronomy 28:37 · BSB

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Psalm 44:13 · BSB

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

Psalm 44:14 · BSB

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Also

Job 17:6

Job 17:6 · BSB

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

12Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

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