Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

I wore sackcloth as my clothing,
and I was a joke to them.

New American Standard Bible

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.

International Standard Version

When I dressed in sackcloth, I became an object of gossip among them.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And I will give my clothing sackcloth, and I for a parable to them.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a proverb to them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I put on a sackcloth, and therefore they jested upon me.

NET Bible

I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

When I have made my clothing of sackcloth, Then have I served them for a by-word;

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile.

References

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Morish

Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

10 I mourned and fasted,
but it brought me insults.
11 I wore sackcloth as my clothing,
and I was a joke to them.
12 Those who sit at the city gate talk about me,
and drunkards make up songs about me.


Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for My name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them an object of horror and disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace, an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing, wherever I have banished them.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.

Job 17:6

He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.

Psalm 35:13-14

Yet when they were sick,
my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled myself with fasting,
and my prayer was genuine.

Psalm 44:13-14

You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

Isaiah 20:2

during that time the Lord had spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, take off your sackcloth and remove the sandals from your feet,” and he did so, going naked and barefoot

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of Hosts
called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.

Joel 1:8

Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,
mourning for the husband of her youth.

Joel 1:13

Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests;
wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come and spend the night in sackcloth,
you ministers of my God,
because grain and drink offerings
are withheld from the house of your God.

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