Psalm 44:13
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New International Version (©2011)
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You let our neighbors mock us. We are an object of scorn and derision to those around us.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You made us a laughing stock to our neighbors, a source of mockery and derision to those around us.

NET Bible (©2006)
You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors; a mockery and a laughingstock to those who are around us.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You made us a disgrace to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

American King James Version
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

American Standard Version
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;

English Revised Version
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us.

World English Bible
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

44:9-16 The believer must have times of temptation, affliction, and discouragement; the church must have seasons of persecution. At such times the people of God will be ready to fear that he has cast them off, and that his name and truth will be dishonoured. But they should look above the instruments of their trouble, to God, well knowing that their worst enemies have no power against them, but what is permitted from above.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours (comp. Psalm 42:10; Psalm 79:4; Psalm 80:6). They would be reproached, not so much as cowards, or as weak and powerless themselves, but rather as having a weak and powerless God (comp. 2 Kings 18:33-35; 2 Kings 19:12). A scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. (For instances of the "scorn and derision" whereto the Israelites were exposed at the hands of the heathen, see 2 Kings 18:23, 24; 2 Kings 19:23, 24; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:2, 3; Psalm 79:4; Psalm 137:7.)

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours,.... Which is the common lot of Christians: Christ and his apostles have given reason for the saints in all ages to expect it, and have fortified their minds to bear it patiently, yea, to esteem it an honour, and greater riches than the treasures of the antichristian Egypt;

a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us; being always represented as mean and despicable, and reckoned ignorant and accursed, and as the faith of the world, and the offscouring of all things.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13, 14. (Compare De 28:37; Ps 79:4).

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Redeem Us
…12You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price. 13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 14You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. …

Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you.
1 Samuel 11:2 But Nahash the Ammonite replied, "I will make a treaty with you only on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and so bring disgrace on all Israel."
Psalm 39:8 Save me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.
Psalm 79:4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.
Psalm 80:6 You have made us an object of derision to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us.
Psalm 89:41 All who pass by have plundered him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
Jeremiah 24:9 I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a curse and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish them.
Jeremiah 33:24 "Have you not noticed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two kingdoms he chose'? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation.
Lamentations 5:1 Remember, LORD, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
Ezekiel 22:4 you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.
Ezekiel 23:32 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "You will drink your sister's cup, a cup large and deep; it will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
Ezekiel 36:3 Therefore prophesy and say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because they ravaged and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people's malicious talk and slander,