Psalm 44:14
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New International Version (©2011)
You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You have made us the butt of their jokes; they shake their heads at us in scorn.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You make us a byword among the nations, A laughingstock among the peoples.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You make us a joke among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You made us an object lesson among the nations; people shake their heads at us.

NET Bible (©2006)
You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
You have made us a proverb among the Gentiles and a shaking of the head among the peoples.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You made our [defeat] a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.

American King James Version
You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

American Standard Version
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles : a shaking of the head among the people.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

English Revised Version
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou makest us a by-word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

World English Bible
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.

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 14. - Thou makest us a byword among the heathen (comp. Job 17:6; Jeremiah 24:9). A shaking of the head among the people; rather, among the peoples (comp. Psalm 22:7).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou makest us a byword among the Heathen,.... Among the Papists, as the Jews were among the Gentiles, Deuteronomy 28:37; calling them schismatics, heretics, fanatics, and what not?

a shaking of the head among the people; by way of indignation, scorn, and contempt; see Psalm 22:7.

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Redeem Us
…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. 15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, …

1 Kings 9:7 then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
2 Kings 19:21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: "'Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
Job 17:6 "God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
Psalm 64:8 He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.
Psalm 69:11 when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.
Psalm 109:25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
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.
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 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,