When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
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When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
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I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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(69-12) I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a byword unto them.
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Passages linked to Psalms 69:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 9:7 then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
- Job 17:6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
- Jeremiah 24:9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.
- Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
- Psalms 35:13-14 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom. I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
- Psalms 44:13-14 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us. You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
- Isaiah 20:2 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
- Isaiah 22:12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
- Joel 1:8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
- Joel 1:13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and…
Psa 69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Ver. 11. I made sackcloth also my garment] A fashion at solemn fasts among the Easterlings; as if they thought the coarsest clothing too good for them; and but for shame would have gone stark naked.
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I became a proverb to them] Dicterium. They would say, with mocking Michal, "How glorious was the king of Israel today, as one of the vain fellows!" 2Sa 6:20.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain My garment; wearing it next to my skin, in…
My garment; wearing it next to my skin, in token of my humiliation and hearty sorrow, as the manner then was in days of fasting.
A proverb to them; they used my name proverbially of any person whom they thought vainly and foolishly religious.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I made sackcloth also my garment,.... Though we nowhere…
I made sackcloth also my garment,.... Though we nowhere read that Jesus put on sackcloth upon any occasion, yet it is not improbable that he did; besides, the phrase may only intend that he mourned and sorrowed at certain times, as persons do when they put on sackcloth: moreover, as the common garb of his forerunner was raiment of camels' hair, with a leathern girdle; so it is very likely his own was very mean, suitable to his condition; who, though he was rich, for our sakes became poor;
and I became a proverb to them; a byword; so that when they saw any person in sackcloth, or in vile raiment, behold such an one looks like Jesus of Nazareth.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Proverb - A proverb of reproach.
Proverb - A proverb of reproach.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain I made sackcloth also my garment - I put…
I made sackcloth also my garment - I put on sackcloth. This was often done as expressive of grief and sorrow. See Psa 30:11, note; Psa 35:13, note. Compare Isa 22:12; Dan 9:3. In the case here referred to, this was an act of religion; an expression of penitence and humiliation.
And I became a proverb to them - A jest; a subject of derision; a by-word. They ridiculed me for it. Compare 1Ki 9:7.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I made sackcloth also my garment; (see Psa_30:12 Psa_35:13)…
I made sackcloth also my garment; (see Psa_30:12 Psa_35:13) and I became a proverb to them; or, a byword, as the same word, mashal, is rendered in Psa_44:14.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 11. I made sackcloth also my garment. This…
Ver. 11. I made sackcloth also my garment. This David did literally, but we have no reason to believe that Jesus did. In a spiritual sense he, as one filled with grief, was always a sackcloth wearer.
And I became a proverb to them. He was ridiculed as "the man of sorrows, "quoted as "the acquaintance of grief." He might have said, "here I and sorrow sit." This which should have won him pity only earned him new and more general scorn. To interweave one's name into a mocking proverb is the highest stretch of malice, and to insult one's acts of devotion is to add profanity to cruelty.
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Ver. 11. I made sackcloth also my garment, etc. Though we nowhere read that Jesus put on sackcloth on any occasion, yet it is not improbable that he did; besides, the phrase may only intend that he mourned and sorrowed at certain times, as persons do when they put on sackcloth; moreover, as the common garb of his forerunner was raiment of camel's hair, with a leathern girdle; it is very likely his own was very mean, suitable to his condition, who, though he was rich, for our sakes became poor. And I became a proverb to them; a byword; so that, when they saw any person in sackcloth or in vile raiment, behold, such an one looks like Jesus of Nazareth. John Gill.
Ver. 11. I became a proverb. Two things are usually implied when a man is said to be a byword. First, that he is in a very low condition: some men are so high that the tongues of the common people dare not climb over them, but where the hedge is low every man goes over. Secondly, that he is in a despised condition; to be a byword, carries a reflection of disgrace. He that is much spoken of, in this sense, is ill spoken of; and he is quite lost in the opinion of men, who is thus found in their discourse... Hence, observe, great sufferers in many things of this world, are the common subject of discourses, and often the subject of disgrace. Such evils as few men have felt or seen, all men will be speaking of. Great sorrows, especially if they be the sorrows of great men, are turned into songs, and poetry plays its part with the saddest disasters... Holy David met with this measure from men in the day of his sorrows: When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb (or a byword) to them. In the next verse he tells us in detail who did this: They that sit in the gate (that is, great ones) speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkard, that is, of the common sort. Joseph Caryl.
Ver. 10-12. A prophecy.
I. Of the Saviour's tears: When I wept.
II. Of his fasting.
III. Of reproach.
IV. Of his humiliation: I made sackcloth, etc.
V. Of the perversion of his words: as, "I will destroy
this temple, "etc.
VI. Of the opposition of the Pharisees, and rulers: They
that sit in the gate, etc.
VII. Of the contempt of the lowest of the people: I was
the song, etc. G. R.
Ver. 11. Proverbial sayings of a scoffing character.
Psalms 69:12*
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