Psalms 69:20 · KJV
“Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked {for some} to take pity, but {there was} none; and for comforters, but I found none. {to take...: Heb. to lament with me}”
— Psalms 69:20
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries {are} all before thee.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalms 69 — Context
Draw nigh unto my soul, {and} redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries {are} all before thee.
20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked {for some} to take pity, but {there was} none; and for comforters, but I found none. {to take...: Heb. to lament with me}
21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let their table become a snare before them: and {that which should have been} for {their} welfare, {let it become} a trap.
Cross References
Isaiah 63:5
And I looked, and {there was} none to help; and I wondered that {there was} none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
Psalms 142:4
I looked on {my} right hand, and beheld, but {there was} no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. {I looked...: or, Look on the right hand, and see} {failed...: Heb. perished from me} {cared...: Heb. sought after}
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}
Mark 14:50
And they all forsook him, and fled.
Matthew 26:56
And they that had laid hold on Jesus led {him} away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
2 Timothy 4:16-17
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all {men} forsook me: {I pray God} that it may not be laid to their charge.
John 16:32
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. {his own: or, his own home}
John 12:27
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.