Parallel Verses
Amplified
They (self-righteous hypocrites) also gave me gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food,
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
New American Standard Bible
And for my thirst they
King James Version
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Holman Bible
and for my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.
International Standard Version
They put poison in my food, in my thirst they forced me to drink vinegar.
A Conservative Version
They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
American Standard Version
They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Bible in Basic English
They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.
Darby Translation
Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Julia Smith Translation
And they will give my food poison, and for my thirst they will give me vinegar to drink.
King James 2000
They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Modern King James verseion
They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They gave me gall to eat, and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.
NET Bible
They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
New Heart English Bible
They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
The Emphasized Bible
But they put in my food - poison! And, for my thirst, they gave for my drink - vinegar!
Webster
They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
World English Bible
They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.
Themes
Pitiless » Pitilessness condemned
Prophecies respecting Christ » Gall and vinegar being given him to drink
Topics
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 69:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Rescue
20
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.
They (self-righteous hypocrites) also gave me gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food,
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
May their table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare [to them];
And when they are in peace [secure at their sacrificial feasts], may it become a trap.
Cross References
Matthew 27:34
they offered Him wine mixed with gall (myrrh, a bitter-tasting narcotic) to drink; but after tasting it, He refused to drink it.
Mark 15:23
They tried to give Him
Matthew 27:48
Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, soaked it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink.
Luke 23:36
The soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him and [cruelly] offering Him sour wine,
Mark 15:36
Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave Him a drink, saying, “Let us see whether Elijah is coming to take Him down.”
Deuteronomy 29:18
so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the [false] gods of these nations; so that there will not be among you a root [of idolatry] bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood (bitterness).
Jeremiah 8:14
Why are we sitting still [the people wonder]?
Assemble yourselves, and let us enter the fortified cities
And let us die there,
For the Lord our God has decreed our ruin
And given us bitter and poisonous water to drink,
Because we have sinned against the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:15
therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them bitter and poisonous water to drink.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts in regard to the prophets,
And make them drink the poisonous water [of gall],
For from the [counterfeit] prophets of Jerusalem
Profaneness and ungodliness have spread into all the land.’”
John 19:28-30
After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said in fulfillment of the Scripture,