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Psalm 69:19

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
18Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
21They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
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Notice

“You know” begins a prayer in which humiliation remains painful, yet neither the sufferer’s disgrace nor the people opposing him escape God’s sight.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t …Isaiah describes someone despised and rejected, sharing Psalm 69’s concern with the suffering of a person treated with contempt.
Hebrews 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the …Shame appears in both passages: the psalm’s speaker names it before God, and Hebrews describes Jesus enduring the cross and despising its shame.
1 Peter 2:23When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.Both texts turn toward God amid mistreatment; Psalm 69 names his knowledge, while Peter describes Jesus committing himself to God’s judgment.
Psalm 2:2–4The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,Both passages name opposition, though Psalm 69 describes personal adversaries and Psalm 2 names rulers opposing the LORD and his Anointed.
Psalm 38:9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.Both prayers speak of what lies before God: adversaries and dishonor in Psalm 69, desire and groaning in Psalm 38.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?Shame marks both speakers’ distress, with Jeremiah lamenting days consumed by it and the psalm’s speaker declaring that God knows it.
Psalm 69:7–9Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.Reproach and shame recur within the same psalm, first described as borne for God’s sake and here acknowledged as known to God.
John 8:49Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.Dishonor is explicit in both texts: the psalm’s speaker names it to God, and Jesus names it to those accusing him.
Isaiah 49:7The LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and …Both passages concern someone treated with contempt whom God addresses or hears, though Isaiah also announces honor before kings and princes.
Psalm 22:6–7But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.Both psalms name reproach as part of the speaker’s suffering under other people’s contempt.
Where this verse fits

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Encouragement

God’s knowledge does not end the distress within this verse. The sufferer still faces reproach, and every adversary remains in the sight of the God he addresses.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).