Psalm 69:11
◄  Psalm 69:11  ►
New International Version (©2011)
when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When I dress in burlap to show sorrow, they make fun of me.

English Standard Version (©2001)
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

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

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I wore sackcloth as my clothing, and I was a joke to them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When I dressed in sackcloth, I became an object of gossip among them.

NET Bible (©2006)
I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
I have made my clothes sackcloth and I have been a proverb to them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I dressed myself in sackcloth, but I became the object of ridicule.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

American King James Version
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

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

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

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

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

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

World English Bible
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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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;

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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 Psalm 30:11, note; Psalm 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.

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Geneva Study Bible

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

Wesley's Notes

69:11 Proverb - A proverb of reproach.

Psalm 69:11 Parallel Commentaries
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I Endure Scorn for Your Sake
…10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. 12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. …

Revelation 11:3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."
1 Kings 9:7 then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
1 Kings 20:31 His officials said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of Israel are merciful. Let us go to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life."
Job 16:15 "I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
Job 17:6 "God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
Job 30:9 "And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
Psalm 35:13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
Psalm 44:14 You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
Jeremiah 24:9 I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a curse and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish them.