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Psalms 69:10

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

KJV

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

ASV

כִּֽי קִנְאַ֣ת בֵּיתְ/ךָ֣ אֲכָלָ֑תְ/נִי וְ/חֶרְפּ֥וֹת ח֝וֹרְפֶ֗י/ךָ נָפְל֥וּ עָלָֽ/י

Hebrew

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

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
חֶרְפַּ֥ת
chrpt
noun · 70×
י
y
noun · 43×
יִּפֹּ֥ל
ypl
verb · 434×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
verb · 811×
נִי
ny
verb · 41×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§584Jesus went up to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. For him, the Temple was the dwelling of his Father, a house of prayer, and he was angered that its outer court had become a place of commerce.353 He drove merchants out of it because of jealous love for his Father: "You shall not make my Father's house a house of trade. His disciples remembered that it w…
Chapter 46.—Of the Birth of Our Saviour, Whereby the Word Was Made Flesh; And of the Dispersion of the Jews Among All Nations, as Had Been Prophesied. While Herod, therefore, reigned in Judea, and Cæsar Augustus was emperor at Rome, the state of the republic being already changed, and the world being set at peace by him, Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judah, man manifest out o…

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 12:16 — David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
  • Dan 9:3 — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
  • Dan 10:12 — Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
  • Isa 53:3 — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
  • Lev 16:29 — And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a
  • Lev 23:32 — It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
  • Luke 7:33 — For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
  • Matt 6:16 — Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
  • Ps 35:13 — But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
  • Ps 35:13 — But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
  • Ps 102:8 — Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
  • Ps 109:24 — My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
  • Ps 109:24 — My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.