Psalms 69:10

I weep and refrain from eating food, ¹  which causes others to insult me. ² 

When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;

When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach.

When I weep and fast before the LORD, they scoff at me.

When I poured myself out in prayer and fasting, All it got me was more contempt.

My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.

When I humbled my soul with fasting, they insulted me for doing so.

When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, That became my reproach.

I weep and refrain from eating food, ¹  which causes others to insult me. ² 

¹ 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 tn Heb “and it becomes insults to me.”