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The Waters Are up to My Neck

Psalms 69:11

In 11 translations

BSB
I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
KJV
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
WEB
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
ASV
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.
LSV
And I make my clothing sackcloth, || And I am for an allegory to them.
YLT
And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile.
DBY
And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.
DRC68:12
And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.
GNV
I put on a sacke also: and I became a prouerbe vnto them.
JPS69:12
I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a byword unto them.
LXXE68:12
And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

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Original-language editions

WLC69:12
וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה לְבוּשִׁ֣י שָׂ֑ק וָאֱהִ֖י לָהֶ֣ם לְמָשָֽׁל׃KJV:Ps.69.11
LXX-Br68:12
Καὶ ἐθέμην τὸ ἔνδυμά μου σάκκον, καὶ ἐγενόμην αὐτοῖς εἰς παραβολήν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 17:6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
  • 1 Kings 9:7then 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 24:9I 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 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
  • Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
  • Isaiah 20:2the 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.
  • Joel 1:8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
  • Psalms 35:13–14Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered. I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
  • Psalms 44:13–14You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
  • Joel 1:13Put 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.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 69:12 in some Bibles
  • 69:11 in most Bibles

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