Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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.

References

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Morish

Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

10 I wept, and chastened myself with fasting, and that was turned to my reproof. 11 I put on a sackcloth, and therefore they jested upon me. 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me, and the drunkards make songs upon me.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

then I will weed Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house which I have hallowed for my name, I will put out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a fable unto all nations.

Jeremiah 24:9

And will make them to be a reproof, a common byword, a laughingstock and shame, in all the places where I shall scatter them.

Deuteronomy 28:37

And thou shalt go to waste and be made an example and a jestingstock unto all nations whither the LORD shall carry thee.

Job 17:6

He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.

Psalm 35:13-14

Nevertheless, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Psalm 44:13-14

Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us.

Isaiah 20:2

Then spake the LORD unto Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose off that sackcloth from thy loins, and put off thy shoes from thy feet." And so he did, going naked and barefoot.

Isaiah 22:12

And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.

Joel 1:8

Make thy moan as a virgin doth that girdeth herself with sack, because of her bridegroom.

Joel 1:13

Gird you, and make your moan, O ye priests: mourn ye ministers of the alter: go your way in, and sleep in sackcloth, O ye officers of my God: for the meat and drink offering shall be taken away from the house of your God.

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