Psalms 69:7 · KJV
“Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.”
— Psalms 69:7
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Psalms 69 — Context
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. {sins: Heb. guiltiness}
6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Cross References
Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Jeremiah 15:15
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Psalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of {our} faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. {author: or, beginner}
Isaiah 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. {we hid...: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us}
Luke 23:11
And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked {him}, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
John 15:21-24
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Matthew 27:38-44
Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.