Psalms 69:11

The NET Bible®

I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I wore sackcloth as my clothing,and I was a joke to them.

Hebrew Names Version
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.

English Standard Version
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

New Century Version
When I wear clothes of sadness, they joke about me.

Amplified Bible
When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning], I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.

New American Standard Bible
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb to them.

World English Bible
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I put on a sacke also: and I became a prouerbe vnto them.

Legacy Standard Bible
When I made sackcloth my clothing,I became a byword to them.

Berean Standard Bible
I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.

Contemporary English Version
They sneered at me for wearing sackcloth to show my sorrow.

Complete Jewish Bible
I weep bitterly, and I fast, but that too occasions insults.

Darby Translation
And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.

Easy-to-Read Version
When I wear sackcloth to show my sorrow, they tell jokes about me.

George Lamsa Translation
I made sackcloth also my garment and I became a proverb to them.

Good News Translation
I dress myself in clothes of mourning, and they laugh at me.

Lexham English Bible
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became for them a byword.

Literal Translation
I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a mockery to them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I put on a sackecloth, and therfore they iested vpon me.

American Standard Version
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.

Bible in Basic English
When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I wept with my soul fasting, and that became unto me a reproach.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Also I put on sackcloth for my garment: and they iested at me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

English Revised Version
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb unto them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y puttide my cloth an heire; and Y am maad to hem in to a parable.

Update Bible Version
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Webster's Bible Translation
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

New King James Version
I also made sackcloth my garment; I became a byword to them.

New Living Translation
When I dress in burlap to show sorrow, they make fun of me.

New Life Bible
When I put on clothes made from hair, they made fun of me.

New Revised Standard
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When I have made my clothing of sackcloth, Then have I served them for a by-word;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(68-12) And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.

Revised Standard Version
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Young's Literal Translation
And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile.

THE MESSAGE
When I put on a sad face, They treated me like a clown.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Contextual Overview

¹

For the music director; according to the tune of "Lilies;" by David.

Deliver me, O God, for the water has reached my neck. ² I sink into the deep mire where there is no solid ground; I am in deep water, and the current overpowers me. ³ I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God. ⁴ Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, my enemies for no reason, outnumber me. They make me repay what I did not steal! ⁵ O God, you are aware of my foolish sins; my guilt is not hidden from you. ⁶ Let none who rely on you be disgraced because of me, O sovereign Lord and king! Let none who seek you be ashamed because of me, O God of Israel! ⁷ For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced. ⁸ My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner. ⁹ Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you. ¹⁰ I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I made: Psalms 35:13, Psalms 35:14, Isaiah 20:2, Isaiah 22:12, Joel 1:8, Joel 1:13

I became: Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:14, Deuteronomy 28:37, 1 Kings 9:7, Jeremiah 24:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:34 - General Leviticus 23:32 - afflict Lamentations 3:14 - General Daniel 9:3 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I made sackcloth also my garment - I put on sackcloth. This was often done as expressive of grief and sorrow. See Psalms 30:11, note; Psalms 35:13, note. Compare Isaiah 22:12; Daniel 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 1 Kings 9:7.