Psalm 44:14 You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

2 Kings 19:21
This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion has despised you, and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Job 17:6
He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Psalm 64:8
So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

Psalm 69:11
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

Psalm 109:25
I became also a reproach to them: when they looked on me they shook their heads.

Jeremiah 24:9
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 33:24
Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

Ezekiel 22:4
You are become guilty in your blood that you have shed; and have defiled yourself in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

Ezekiel 36:3
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the heathen, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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

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