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Psalm 69

Psa. 69:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I made
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
sackcloth
saq (Hebrew #8242)
properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.)
KJV usage: sack(-cloth, -clothes).
Pronounce: sak
Origin: from 8264
also my garment
lbuwsh (Hebrew #3830)
from 3847; a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphem.) a wife
KJV usage: apparel, clothed with, clothing, garment, raiment, vestment, vesture.
Pronounce: leb-oosh'
Origin: or lbush {leb-oosh'}
; and I became a proverb
mashal (Hebrew #4912)
properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse)
KJV usage: byword, like, parable, proverb.
Pronounce: maw-shawl'
Origin: apparently from 4910 in some original sense of superiority in mental action
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Ministry on This Verse

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I made.
Psa. 35:13‑14• 13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom:
 14I behaved myself as though he had been a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth for a mother. (Psa. 35:13‑14)
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Isa. 20:2• 2at that time spoke Jehovah by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy sandal from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. (Isa. 20:2)
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Isa. 22:12• 12And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; (Isa. 22:12)
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Joel 1:8,13• 8Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
 13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God. (Joel 1:8,13)
I became.
Psa. 44:13‑14• 13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;
 14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. (Psa. 44:13‑14)
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Deut. 28:37• 37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee. (Deut. 28:37)
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1 Kings 9:7• 7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples; (1 Kings 9:7)
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Jer. 24:9• 9And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither unto all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them; (Jer. 24:9)
• If the sins of the nation made Him the Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, the very sorrows, symbolized by the sackcloth, became the occasion of men using Him as a proverb to warn others from following in His steps. (“Psalms 69” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.