Psalm 69:10
New International Version
When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;

New Living Translation
When I weep and fast, they scoff at me.

English Standard Version
When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

Berean Standard Bible
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

King James Bible
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

New King James Version
When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, That became my reproach.

New American Standard Bible
When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my disgrace.

NASB 1995
When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach.

NASB 1977
When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach.

Legacy Standard Bible
When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach.

Amplified Bible
When I wept and humbled myself with fasting, It became my reproach.

Christian Standard Bible
I mourned and fasted, but it brought me insults.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I mourned and fasted, but it brought me insults.

American Standard Version
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
My soul is humbled by fasting and I have been a reproach to them.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.

Contemporary English Version
I cried and went without food, but they still insulted me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.

English Revised Version
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I cried and fasted, but I was insulted for it.

Good News Translation
I humble myself by fasting, and people insult me;

International Standard Version
I weep and fast, and I am mocked for it.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And I wept with my soul with fasting, And that became unto me a reproach.

Literal Standard Version
And I weep in the fasting of my soul, | And it is for a reproach to me.

Majority Standard Bible
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

New American Bible
When I humbled my spirit with fasting, this led only to scorn.

NET Bible
I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

New Revised Standard Version
When I humbled my soul with fasting, they insulted me for doing so.

New Heart English Bible
When I wept and I fasted, it brought me insults.

Webster's Bible Translation
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

World English Bible
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

Young's Literal Translation
And I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me.

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Context
The Waters Are Up to My Neck
9because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me. 10I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach. 11I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.…

Cross References
Psalm 35:13
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Psalm 69:11
I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.


Treasury of Scripture

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

Psalm 102:8,9
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me…

Psalm 109:24,25
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness…

Luke 7:33,34
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil…

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Psalm 69
1. David complains of his affliction
13. He prays for deliverance
22. He devotes his enemies to destruction
30. He praises God with thanksgiving














(10) When I wept . . .--The expression I wept (or lamented) my soul with fasting is hardly intelligible, though perhaps we might say I wept out my soul with fasting. The LXX. and Psalm 35:13 suggest an emendation to "I humbled my soul with fasting."

To my reproach.--Quite literally and better, a reproach to me. Those who made light of the covenant altogether, who were in heart apostates both to faith and patriotism, would naturally treat with contempt those outward signs by which an erring Israelite owned his offence and sought reconciliation.

Verse 10. - When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. David's practice of fasting appears both here and also in Psalm 35:13; Psalm 109:24; 2 Kings 12:16, 22. As fasting was not enjoined by the Law, he might be reproached for over-righteousness, and perhaps also for ostentation, on account of it.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I
נַפְשִׁ֑י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

wept
וָאֶבְכֶּ֣ה (wā·’eḇ·keh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1058: To weep, to bemoan

and fasted,
בַצּ֣וֹם (ḇaṣ·ṣō·wm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6685: Fasting, a fast

but it brought
וַתְּהִ֖י (wat·tə·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

me reproach.
לַחֲרָפ֣וֹת (la·ḥă·rā·p̄ō·wṯ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2781: Contumely, disgrace, the pudenda


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