Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

References

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Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

10 And I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me. 11 And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile. 12 Those sitting at the gate meditate concerning me, And those drinking strong drink, Play on instruments.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples;

Jeremiah 24:9

And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.

Deuteronomy 28:37

and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.

Job 17:6

And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

Psalm 35:13-14

And I -- in their sickness my clothing is sackcloth, I have humbled with fastings my soul, And my prayer unto my bosom returneth.

Psalm 44:13-14

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.

Isaiah 20:2

at that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, 'Go, and thou hast loosed the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thy sandal thou dost draw from off thy foot,' and he doth so, going naked and barefoot.

Isaiah 22:12

And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,

Joel 1:8

Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.

Joel 1:13

Gird, and lament, ye priests, Howl, ye ministrants of the altar, Come in, lodge in sackcloth, ministrants of my God, For withheld from the house of your God hath been present and libation.

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