Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

When I have made my clothing of sackcloth, Then have I served them for a by-word;

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

I wore sackcloth as my clothing,
and I was a joke to them.

International Standard Version

When I dressed in sackcloth, I became an object of gossip among them.

A Conservative Version

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.

Amplified


When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning],
I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And I will give my clothing sackcloth, and I for a parable to them.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a proverb to them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I put on a sackcloth, and therefore they jested upon me.

NET Bible

I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.

New Heart English Bible

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

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

American

Morish

Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

10 When I have humbled my soul with fasting, Then hath it turned to my reproach; 11 When I have made my clothing of sackcloth, Then have I served them for a by-word; 12 They who sit in the gate talk against me, - And against me are the songs of them who imbibe strong drink.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

then will I cut off Israel, from the face of the soil, which I have given unto them, and, the house which I have hallowed for my Name, will I suffer to be carried away from before me, - and Israel shall become a byword and a mockery, among all the peoples;

Jeremiah 24:9

yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth, - as a reproach and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them;

Deuteronomy 28:37

Thus shalt thou become a horror, a byword, and a mockery, among all the peoples whither Yahweh thy God will drive thee.

Job 17:6

But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.

Psalm 35:13-14

But, as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I humbled, with fasting, my soul, though, my prayer, unto mine own bosom, might return:

Psalm 44:13-14

Thou dust make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us:

Isaiah 20:2

At that time, spake Yahweh, through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, And thy sandal, draw thou off from thy foot, - And he did so, walking disrobed and barefoot.

Isaiah 22:12

And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day, - for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth,

Joel 1:8

Wail thou, like a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the owner of her youth.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and beat the breast - ye priests, howl, ye attendants of the altar, go in and wrap yourselves for the night in sackcloth, ye attendants on my God, - for, withholden from the house of your God, are the meal-offering and the drink- offering.

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