Psalms Chapter 69 verse 7 Holy Bible
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face.
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I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.
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Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.
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Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
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Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
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Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
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For because of Thee I have borne reproach, Shame hath covered my face.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Because for thy sake I have borne reproach. The real secret of the enmity which David provoked, both on the part of Saul, of Absalom, of Joab, and of other ungodly men, was his own piety and devotion to God's service. Irreligious men hate those who are religions, whose conduct shames them by its contrast with their own evil courses. They revenge themselves, sometimes by scoffing at the religious observances of the pious (ver. 10), sometimes by insinuating that all profession of religion is hypocrisy. Shame hath covered my face. I have been made to feel shame at the charges which have been brought against me (see 2 Samuel 15:3; 2 Samuel 16:7, 8).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Because.--Better, for.For thy sake.--It is plain from Psalm 69:9 that these words can only mean that the reproach under which the psalmist (or the community of which he was the spokesman) laboured was borne in the cause of religion. (Comp. Jeremiah 15:15.)
