Psalms 69:21 · KJV
“They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.”
— Psalms 69:21
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}
Let their table become a snare before them: and {that which should have been} for {their} welfare, {let it become} a trap.
Psalms 69 — Context
Thou 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.
23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
Cross References
Matthew 27:34
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted {thereof}, he would not drink.
Luke 23:36
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
Mark 15:23
And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received {it} not.
Matthew 27:48
And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled {it} with vinegar, and put {it} on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Mark 15:36
And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put {it} on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
John 19:28-30
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, {even} this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. {gall: or, poison}