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The Waters Are up to My Neck

Psalms 69:10

In 11 translations

BSB
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
KJV
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
WEB
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
ASV
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.
LSV
And I weep in the fasting of my soul, || And it is for a reproach to me.
YLT
And I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me.
DBY
And I wept, my soul was fasting: that also was to my reproach; —
DRC68:11
And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.
GNV
I wept and my soule fasted, but that was to my reproofe.
JPS69:11
And I wept with my soul fasting, and that became unto me a reproach.
LXXE68:11
And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.

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Original-language editions

WLC69:11
וָאֶבְכֶּ֣ה בַצּ֣וֹם נַפְשִׁ֑י וַתְּהִ֖י לַחֲרָפ֣וֹת לִֽי׃KJV:Ps.69.10
LXX-Br68:11
Καὶ συνέκαμψα ἐν νηστείᾳ τὴν ψυχήν μου, καὶ ἐγενήθη εἰς ὀνειδισμοὺς ἐμοί.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Luke 7:33–34For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and…
  • Psalms 109:24–25My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt. I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
  • Psalms 35:13Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
  • Psalms 102:8–9All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me. For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

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  • 69:11 in some Bibles
  • 69:10 in most Bibles

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