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10 I weep and refrain from eating food,[a]
which causes others to insult me.[b]
11 I wear sackcloth
and they ridicule me.[c]
12 Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me;
drunkards mock me in their songs.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:10 sn Fasting was a practice of mourners. By refraining from normal activities such as eating food, the mourner demonstrated the sincerity of his sorrow.
  2. Psalm 69:10 tn Heb “and it becomes insults to me.”
  3. Psalm 69:11 tn Heb “and I am an object of ridicule to them.”
  4. Psalm 69:12 tn Heb “the mocking songs of the drinkers of beer.”

10 When I weep and fast,(A)
    I must endure scorn;
11 when I put on sackcloth,(B)
    people make sport of me.
12 Those who sit at the gate(C) mock me,
    and I am the song of the drunkards.(D)

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