Psalms 44:12
10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
- KJV
- Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
- WEB
- You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
- ASV
- Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price.
- DARBY
- Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price;
- BLB
- You sell Your people with no profit, and You do not gain increase by their price.
- ÅB
- Du selger ditt folk for intet, og du setter ikke prisen på dem høyt.
- OTB
- Du har solgt Ditt folk for en spottpris,
Og har ikke tjent noe på salget. - B1930
- Du selger ditt folk for intet, og du setter ikke prisen på dem høit.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 15:13
Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
Read in contextIsaiah 52:3–4
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Read in contextJudges 2:14
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Read in contextIsaiah 50:1
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Read in contextJudges 3:8
Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.
Read in contextRevelation 18:13
And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
Read in contextNehemiah 5:8–12
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
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