Parallel Verses

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.

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 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. 11 When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.
12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

I will have Israel cut off from the land I gave them. I will abandon this house even though I have made it holy for myself. I will put you out of my sight. Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. They will be a disgrace and an example. They will become something ridiculed and cursed wherever I scatter them.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become a thing of revulsion. All the nations where Jehovah will send you will make an example of you and laugh at you.

Job 17:6

Now he has made me a laughingstock for many people. Now they spit in my face.

Psalm 35:13-14

But when they were sick, I wore sackcloth. I humbled myself with fasting. My prayer returned unanswered.

Psalm 44:13-14

You made us a reproach to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

Isaiah 20:2

At that time Jehovah spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him: Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet. He did this and went around stripped and barefoot.

Isaiah 22:12

In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth you ministers of my God! The meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.

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