Psalm 69:20 “Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympat…”

Psalm 69:20

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

World English Bible

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

American Standard Version

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

Geneva Bible 1599

Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.

Darby Translation

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Young's Literal Translation

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.

Bible in Basic English

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

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Cross references

“Reproach”

Psalm 42:10 Psalm 123:4 Hebrews 11:36

Psalm 42:10 · BSB

Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 123:4 · BSB

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

Hebrews 11:36 · BSB

Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

“I am”

John 12:27 Psalm 42:6 Matthew 26:37 Matthew 26:38

John 12:27 · BSB

Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.

Psalm 42:6 · BSB

O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.

Matthew 26:37 · BSB

He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.

Matthew 26:38 · BSB

Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”

“I looked”

Isaiah 63:5 Mark 14:50 Mark 14:37

Isaiah 63:5 · BSB

I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

Mark 14:50 · BSB

Then everyone deserted Him and fled.

Mark 14:37 · BSB

Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?

“but there”

Psalm 142:4 John 16:32 2 Timothy 4:16 2 Timothy 4:17

Psalm 142:4 · BSB

Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

John 16:32 · BSB

“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

2 Timothy 4:16 · BSB

At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

2 Timothy 4:17 · BSB

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

“comforters”

Job 16:2 Matthew 26:56 Job 19:21 Job 19:22

Job 16:2 · BSB

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

Matthew 26:56 · BSB

But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

Job 19:21 · BSB

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

Job 19:22 · BSB

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

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

In context

19You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.

21They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

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