Psalm 69:20

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am sick. And I looked for a bemoaner, and there was none, and for comforters, and I found none.

Latin

…in conspectu tuo sunt omnes qui tribulant me. Improperium exspectavit cor meum et miseriam: et sustinui qui simul contristaretur, et non fuit; et qui consolaretur, et non inveni.

Original

Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Psalms 69:19–21

The psalmist feels alone and misunderstood. He cannot bear his doubts, and his troubles overwhelm him.

Psalms 69:1–36

In this personal lament, the poet shares his vulnerability, humiliation, and deep pain. He asks God to defend him for the sake of the righteous.

Psalms 69:1–72:20

These last four psalms of Book Two contrast with the earlier psalms that describe God’s mighty acts in creation and redemption, ending with God’s march to Zion (Psalms 65–68). Psalms 69–71 describe the king's suffering, and Psalm 72 responds with a prayer for God to bless the king.

Theme notes and profiles

David Psalms of Suffering The Heart in the Psalms

Related verses

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.
Psalm 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.
Job 16:2
“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
Mark 14:50
Then everyone deserted Him and fled.
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.
2 Timothy 4:16–17
At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
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.
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.
Psalm 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.
Psalm 123:4
We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
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?
Hebrews 11:36
Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

Glossary

Curse, Cursed David Mercy Music Persecution Psalms, Book of Shoshannim, Shoshannim-Eduth

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Consolation In Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Consolation Under Affliction is Sought in Vain from the World Jesus, the Christ: Messiah: Messianic Psalms Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning Persecution of Jesus Prophecies Respecting Christ: His Bearing Reproach Reviling and Reproaching: Saints: Sometimes Depressed By

Psalm 69:20

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