Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
Parallel translations
- WEB Reproach 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.
- KJV Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
- NKJV Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
- NASB ¶Disgrace has broken my heart, and I am so sick. And I waited for sympathy, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
- NLT Their insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. If only one person would show some pity; if only one would turn and comfort me.
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Reproach has broken David's heart and left him in despair, finding no one to comfort him. It expresses the crushing loneliness of unrelieved suffering.
Overview
David's heart is shattered by reproach, and he searches in vain for pity or comforters. The depth of isolation here is profound. This verse strikingly anticipates Christ in Gethsemane and at the cross, abandoned and uncomforted by men, who endured the loneliness of bearing our sin so that we would never be left without the Comforter.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 63:5I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.
- Job 16:2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
- Ps 142:4Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
- Mark 14:50Then everyone deserted Him and fled.
- Matt 26:56But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
- John 16:32“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
- John 12:27Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
- 2 Tim 4:16–17At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
- Matt 26:37–38He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
- Heb 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
- Mark 14:37Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?
- Ps 123:4We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
- Ps 42:6O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.
- Job 19:21–22Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Ps 42:10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
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