Parallel Verses
King James 2000
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
New American Standard Bible
I became
King James Version
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Holman Bible
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.
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.
The Emphasized Bible
When I have made my clothing of sackcloth, Then have I served them for a by-word;
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 69:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Rescue
10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Kings 9:7
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:
Jeremiah 24:9
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
Job 17:6
He has made me also a byword of the people; and I was as one before whom men spit.
Psalm 35:13-14
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
Psalm 44:13-14
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Isaiah 20:2
At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and remove the sackcloth from off your body, and put off your shoes from your feet. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:
Joel 1:8
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: wail, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.