Because for Your sake I have endured disgrace; Dishonor has covered my face.
Parallel translations
- WEB Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
- KJV Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath 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.
- 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 those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
- Jer 15:15Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
- Ps 44:22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
- Heb 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 right hand of the throne of God.
- Isa 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 respect him.
- John 15:21–24But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
- Luke 23:11Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
- Matt 27:29–30They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
- Luke 23:35–37The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
- Ps 22:6–8But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
- Ps 44:15All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
- Matt 27:38–44Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.
- Matt 26:67–68Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
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