Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Parallel translations
- WEB Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
- BSB For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
- NKJV Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face.
- NASB Because for Your sake I have endured disgrace; Dishonor has covered my face.
- NLT For I endure insults for your sake; humiliation is written all over my face.
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Quick answer
David bears reproach and shame specifically for God's sake. It shows that faithfulness to God can bring suffering and disgrace.
Overview
David testifies that the scorn he endures comes because of his devotion to God. Suffering for righteousness' sake is a recurring biblical reality. This verse points clearly to Christ, who bore reproach and shame for the Father's glory, and it encourages believers that bearing shame for God's name unites us with our suffering Savior.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 50:6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
- Jer 15:15O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
- Ps 44:22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Heb 12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
- John 15:21–24But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
- Luke 23:11And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
- Matt 27:29–30And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
- Luke 23:35–37And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
- Ps 22:6–8But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
- Ps 44:15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
- Matt 27:38–44Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
- Matt 26:67–68Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
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