Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Holman Bible
and I am in despair.
I waited for sympathy,
but there was none;
for comforters, but found no one.
International Standard Version
Insults broke my heart. I despaired and looked for sympathy; but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.
American Standard Version
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
Amplified
Reproach and insults have broken my heart and I am so sick.
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
And for comforters, but I found none.
Bible in Basic English
My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
Darby Translation
Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Julia Smith Translation
Reproach broke my heart, and I shall be ill at ease: and I shall hope for comforting, and none; and for those consoling, and I found not
King James 2000
Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
Modern King James verseion
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to mourn with me, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thy rebuke breaketh my heart, and maketh me heavy. I look for some to have pity upon me, but there is no man; and for some to comfort me, but I find none.
NET Bible
Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.
New Heart English Bible
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
The Emphasized Bible
Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am weak, - Though I waited for one to pity me, yet there was none, And for comforters, yet I found not any.
Webster
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
World English Bible
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
Youngs Literal Translation
Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.
Themes
Consolation under Affliction » Is sought in vain from the world
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 69:20
Prayers for Psalm 69:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Rescue
19 Thou know my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before thee. 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. 21 They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Names
Cross References
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are ye all.
Isaiah 63:5
And I looked, and there was none to help. And I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. And my wrath, it upheld me.
Psalm 142:4
Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.
Mark 14:50
And having forsook him, they all fled.
Job 19:21-22
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Psalm 42:6
O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
Psalm 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?
Psalm 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Matthew 26:37-38
And having taken Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and distressed.
Matthew 26:56
But all this has come to pass, so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, having forsook him.
Mark 14:37
And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, Simon, Do thou sleep? Could thou not watch one hour?
John 12:27
Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But because of this I came to this hour.
John 16:32
Behold, the hour comes, and now has come, that ye will be scattered, each man to his own things, and ye will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
2 Timothy 4:16-17
At my first defense no man came with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them.
Hebrews 11:36
And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment.