Psa 69:11
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
King James Version
✦ Tap any word with a dotted underline to see its original language study
Connections · 13
Parallel · 13
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for {their} hurt, {to be} a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. {to be removed: Heb. for removing, or, vexation}
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 people:
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing {was} sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. {humbled: or, afflicted}
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. {by: Heb. by the hand of}
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
I was a derision to all my people; {and} their song all the day.