I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
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I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
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I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
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I am become also a taunt unto them; when they see me, they shake their head.
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Passages linked to Psalms 109:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 22:6-7 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
- Psalms 69:19-20 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. 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.
- Romans 15:3 For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
- Psalms 69:9-12 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
- Job 16:4 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
- Psalms 31:11-13 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me. I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
- Psalms 35:15-16 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease. Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- Isaiah 37:22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
- Matthew 27:39-40 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
- Mark 15:29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
- Hebrews 12:2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Hebrews 13:13 Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 109:25 I became also a reproach unto them:…
Psa 109:25 I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Ver. 25. I became also a reproach] In respect to my leanness.
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They shaked their heads] This is threatened as a curse, Deu 28:15-68, but may befall the best, as it did our Saviour, Psa 22:7 Mat 27:39
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Instead of that pity which either religion or humanity…
Instead of that pity which either religion or humanity should have taught them to a man in extreme misery, they loaded me with reproaches and scorns.
Shaked their heads; a gesture of contempt and derision; of which see Job 16:4; Psa 22:7.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Help me, O Lord my God,.... Jehovah the Father…
Help me, O Lord my God,.... Jehovah the Father is here addressed, who is the God of Christ, as Christ is man; who formed him, supported him, and glorified him; and whom Christ loved, believed in, obeyed and prayed unto; nor did he pray to a God that could not hear, but to one that was able to save him from death: as a divine Person he needed no help, being the mighty God, the most Mighty, the Almighty: but as man he did, being encompassed about with infirmities; and as Mediator help was promised him, he expected it, and he had it, Psa 89:21.
O save me according to thy mercy; or "kindness"; as before in Psa 109:21 from sufferings, and out of them; from death and the grave, as he was; or his people by him, who are saved not by works of righteousness, but according to the mercy of God, Tit 3:5.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 25. When they looked upon me they soaked…
Verse 25. When they looked upon me they soaked their heads.] Thus was David treated by Shimei, 2Sa 16:5-6, and our blessed Lord by the Jews, Mt 27:39.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain I became also a reproach unto them - They…
I became also a reproach unto them - They reproached or reviled me as a bad man. Compare the notes at Psa 22:6. The plural here - “unto them” - shows that there were more than one to whom the psalm had reference, though one of them was so prominent that a considerable part of the psalm might properly be spoken of him alone.
When they looked upon me, they shaked their heads - In contempt. See Psa 22:7. Compare Mat 27:39.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. Shaked their heads—Wagged their heads as a token…
25. Shaked their heads—Wagged their heads as a token of scorn and insult. See Psa_22:7; Psa_44:14; Lam_2:15; 2Ki_19:21
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. And I—I am become a reproach unto them:
25. And I—I am become a reproach unto them:
When they see me, they shake their head,
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a gesture of contempt and abhorrence, as though I were the object of the wrath of God. Cp. Psa_22:7; Psa_69:10-12; Lam_2:15; Job_16:4.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I became (rather, am become) also a reproach unto…
I became (rather, am become) also a reproach unto them; i.e. to my enemies. I am an object of their reproach and scorn. When they looked upon me they shaked their heads. In derision. (comp. Psa_22:7 Psa_44:14 Mat_27:39)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 25. I became also a reproach unto them.…
Ver. 25. I became also a reproach unto them. They made him the theme of ridicule, the butt of their ribald jests: his emaciation by fasting made him a tempting subject for their caricatures and lampoons.
When they looked upon me they shaked their heads. Words were not a sufficient expression of their scorn, they resorted to gestures which were meant both to show their derision and to irritate his mind. Though these things break no bones, yet they do worse, for they break and bruise far tenderer parts of us. Many a man who could have answered a malicious speech, and so have relieved his mind, has felt keenly a sneer, a putting out of the tongue, or some other sign of contempt. Those, too, who are exhausted by such fasting and wasting, as the last verse describes (Ps 109:31) are generally in a state of morbid sensibility, and therefore feel more acutely the unkindness of others. What they would smile at during happier seasons becomes intolerable when they are in a highly nervous condition.
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Psalms 109:26*
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