Psalms 44:13
11 You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
15 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- KJV
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
- WEB
- You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
- ASV
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
- DARBY
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;
- BLB
- You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- ÅB
- Du gjør oss til hån for våre naboer, til spott og spe for dem som bor omkring oss.
- OTB
- Du gjør oss til en skam for våre naboer,
Til hån og spott for dem rundt oss. - B1930
- Du gjør oss til hån for våre naboer, til spott og spe for dem som bor omkring oss.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
Read in contextPsalms 80:6
You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.
Read in contextJeremiah 24:9
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:37
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Read in contextJeremiah 48:27
Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.
Read in contextPsalms 123:3–4
Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
Read in contextPsalms 89:41
All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Read in contextEzekiel 36:19–23
I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds.
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