Psalms 44:15
13 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.
All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
16 at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
17 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
- KJV
- My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
- WEB
- All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
- ASV
- All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me,
- DARBY
- All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
- BLB
- All the day, my disgrace [is] before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
- ÅB
- Hele dagen står min skam for mine øyne, og blygsel dekker mitt ansikt,
- OTB
- Hele dagen er min vanære foran meg,
Og jeg er dekket av min ydmykelse, - B1930
- Hele dagen står min skam for mine øine, og blygsel dekker mitt ansikt,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 69:7
For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
Read in contextJeremiah 51:51
“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
Read in context2 Chronicles 32:21
and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
Read in contextPsalms 71:13
May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.
Read in contextJoshua 7:7–9
“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
Read in contextPsalms 89:45
You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
Read in contextJeremiah 3:25
Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
Read in contextEzra 9:6
and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
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