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Psalm 69:10

When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
12Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
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Weeping and fasting become reasons for reproach here, exposing the added hurt of having sorrow turned into something others use against you.

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Where else Scripture says this

9 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Matthew 6:16“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most …Both texts connect fasting with other people’s responses: the psalm describes reproach, while Jesus warns against fasting to gain attention.
Daniel 10:12Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words …Weeping and fasting in the psalm share a thread of humility with Daniel humbling himself before God.
2 Samuel 12:16David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.Fasting accompanies sorrow in the psalm and David’s plea to God for the child in Samuel.
Luke 7:33–34For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’Both passages describe reproach directed at someone whose abstaining from food becomes a point of accusation.
Leviticus 16:29“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether …Both texts concern self-denial, though the psalm describes personal fasting and Leviticus commands a shared observance of affliction and rest.
Psalm 109:24–25My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.Fasting appears in both psalms, with reproach named here and bodily weakness named in Psalm 109.
Psalm 102:8–9My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.Reproach marks both laments, as others turn the speaker’s life into material for contempt.
Psalm 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.Both passages describe fasting amid sorrow; Psalm 35 identifies others’ sickness as the occasion for fasting and prayer.
Isaiah 58:3‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, …Both mention fasting followed by complaint, though the psalm concerns reproach and Isaiah challenges fasting practiced alongside oppression.
Where this verse fits

Grief. church hurt. loneliness.

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Encouragement

Scorn can make tears feel shameful. This psalm includes them in speech to God: even the reproach that follows weeping and fasting belongs in prayer.

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