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Psalms 69:20

Psalms 69:20 is verse 20 of Psalms chapter 69, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

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King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

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Psalms 69:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.

19 You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.

20 Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

21 They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

22 May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 42:10

Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalms 123:4

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

Hebrews 11:36

Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

Psalms 42:6

O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.

Matthew 26:37

He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.

Matthew 26:38

Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”

John 12:27

Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.

Isaiah 63:5

I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

Mark 14:37

Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?

Mark 14:50

Then everyone deserted Him and fled.

Psalms 142:4

Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

John 16:32

“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

2 Timothy 4:16

At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

Job 16:2

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

Job 19:22

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Matthew 26:56

But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

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