Psalms 44:12

American Standard Version (1901)

Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 15:13 : 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
  • Deut 32:30 : 30 How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
  • Isa 52:3-4 : 3 For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause.
  • Rev 18:13 : 13 and cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and [merchandise] of horses and chariots and [ slaves; and souls of men.
  • Judg 2:14 : 14 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
  • Judg 3:8 : 8 Therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
  • Neh 5:8-9 : 8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word. 9 Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? 10 And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury. 11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. 12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 52:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

    4For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause.

  • Ps 44:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.

    14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

  • Ps 44:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.

    10Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.

    11Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.

  • 5whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.

  • Joel 3:3-8
    6 verses
    72%

    3and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

    4Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head.

    5Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

    6and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;

    7behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;

    8and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it.

  • 6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

  • 24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast burdened me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

  • 4Since thou hast been precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy life.

  • 15Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.

  • 45Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

  • 15Thus shall the things be unto thee wherein thou hast labored: they that have trafficked with thee from thy youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to save thee.

  • 4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

  • 14And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.

  • 68And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

  • Job 22:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

    7Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

  • 13Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

  • 16According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops doth he sell unto thee.

  • 12In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Lev 25:44-45
    2 verses
    70%

    44And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

    45Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession.

  • 14Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt put away, but shalt not save; and that which thou savest will I give up to the sword.

  • 22But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

  • 42For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

  • 8And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

  • 37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • 4In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove [it] from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.

  • 13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise.

  • 5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

  • 6Ye shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.

  • 4And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.

  • 5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already] : neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

  • 12Thou didst cause men to ride over our heads; We went through fire and through water; But thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

  • 11Hath a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

  • 3Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

  • 1Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

  • 12I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.

  • 33When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

  • 8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.