Psalms 69:20

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 69:20 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 16:2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
  2. Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
  3. Psalms 42:6O 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.
  4. Psalms 42:10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
  5. Psalms 123:4We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
  6. Psalms 142:4Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
  7. Isaiah 63:5I 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.
  8. Matthew 26:37He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
  9. Matthew 26:56But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
  10. Mark 14:37Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?
  11. Mark 14:50Then everyone deserted Him and fled.
  12. John 12:27Now 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 2 Timothy 4:16At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
  15. Hebrews 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

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