Psalms 69:7

Revised Standard Version

For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For I have endured insults because of you,and shame has covered my face.

Hebrew Names Version
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

King James Version
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

English Standard Version
For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face.

New Century Version
For you, I carry this shame, and my face is covered with disgrace.

New English Translation
For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.

Amplified Bible
Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Confusion and dishonor have covered my face.

New American Standard Bible
Because for Your sake I have endured disgrace; Dishonor has covered my face.

World English Bible
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For thy sake haue I suffred reproofe: shame hath couered my face.

Legacy Standard Bible
Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;Dishonor has covered my face.

Berean Standard Bible
For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

Contemporary English Version
It is for your sake alone that I am insulted and blush with shame.

Complete Jewish Bible
Let those who put their hope in you, Adonai Elohim -Tzva'ot, not be put to shame through me; let those who are seeking you, God of Isra'el, not be disgraced through me.

Darby Translation
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.

Easy-to-Read Version
My face is covered with shame. I carry this shame for you.

George Lamsa Translation
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

Good News Translation
It is for your sake that I have been insulted and that I am covered with shame.

Lexham English Bible
Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.

Literal Translation
Because I suffered reproach for Your sake, shame has covered My face.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And why? for thy sake do I suffre reprofe, shame couereth my face.

American Standard Version
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face.

Bible in Basic English
I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let not them that wait for Thee be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of hosts;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thy sake haue I suffered reprofe, shame hath couered my face:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; shame has covered my face.

English Revised Version
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y suffride schenschipe for thee; schame hilide my face.

Update Bible Version
Because for your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

New King James Version
Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face.

New Living Translation
For I endure insults for your sake; humiliation is written all over my face.

New Life Bible
I have been put to shame because of You. Shame has covered my face.

New Revised Standard
It is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because, for thy sake, have I borne reproach, Confusion hath covered my face;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(68-8) Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Young's Literal Translation
For because of Thee I have borne reproach, Shame hath covered my face.

THE MESSAGE
Because of you I look like an idiot, I walk around ashamed to show my face.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Dishonor has covered my face.

Contextual Overview

¹ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. ² I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. ³ I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God. ⁴ More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore? ⁵ O God, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee. ⁶ Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. ⁷ For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face. ⁸ I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons. ⁹ For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me. ¹⁰ When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Because: Psalms 22:6-8, Psalms 44:22, Jeremiah 15:15, John 15:21-24

shame: Isaiah 50:6, Isaiah 53:3, Matthew 26:67, Matthew 26:68, Matthew 27:29, Matthew 27:30, Matthew 27:38-44, Luke 23:11, Luke 23:35-37, Hebrews 12:2

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 6:16 - despised 2 Samuel 6:20 - Michal 1 Chronicles 15:29 - she despised Psalms 22:5 - and were Psalms 31:17 - Let me Psalms 44:15 - covered Psalms 69:19 - my reproach Isaiah 49:7 - to him whom man despiseth Jeremiah 51:51 - shame Obadiah 1:10 - shame Matthew 27:39 - reviled Mark 15:29 - they Luke 22:63 - mocked Hebrews 11:26 - the reproach Revelation 2:3 - hast borne

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach,.... Being reckoned a sinner, called a deceiver, said to be a Samaritan, and to have a devil; with many other reproaches, which he bore patiently for the sake of the word and worship of God, and for the sake of the glory of God, which he all along sought; and to repair the loss of it, which was sustained through the sin of man;

shame hath covered my face; when he was spit upon by some, and smote by others with a rod upon his cheek; and when he was blindfolded, and bid to prophesy who smote him; see Isaiah 50:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach - In thy cause; in defense of thy truth; because I have professed to be a friend of God. The true reason why these calamities have come upon me is that I have been thy professed friend, and have endeavored to do my duty to thee. The reproach connected with religion in a world of sin, or where true religion is hated, has fallen on me.

Shame hath covered my face - The idea here is not that he had himself been ashamed of religion or of the service of God, but that he had suffered shame, derision, reproach among people for his professed attachment to the truth. Compare Psalms 44:15-16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 69:7. For thy sake I have borne reproach — The Gentiles have said, "Why such an obstinate attachment to the worship of a Being who treats you so rigorously, and who interests not himself in your comfort and deliverance?" And in these cuttting reproaches some of the ungodly Jews took a part: "I am an alien to my mother's children."