Psalms 44:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 15:13 : 13 I will give your wealth and your stores to your attackers, without a price, because of all your sins, even in every part of your land.
  • Deut 32:30 : 30 How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?
  • Isa 52:3-4 : 3 For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price. 4 For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.
  • Rev 18:13 : 13 And sweet-smelling plants, and perfumes, and wine, and oil, and well crushed grain, and cattle and sheep; and horses and carriages and servants; and souls of men.
  • Judg 2:14 : 14 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.
  • Judg 3:8 : 8 So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.
  • Neh 5:8-9 : 8 And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word. 9 And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us? 10 Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing. 11 Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them. 12 Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 52:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3 For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.

    4 For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.

  • Ps 44:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13 You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

    14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

  • Ps 44:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9 But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

    10 Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

    11 You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

  • Zech 11:5
    73%

    5 Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

  • Joel 3:3-8
    6 verses
    72%

    3 And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

    4 The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

    5 And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

    6 For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed,

    7 I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.

    8 And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.

  • Amos 8:6
    72%

    6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

  • Isa 43:24
    72%

    24 You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.

  • Isa 43:4
    72%

    4 Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.

  • Gen 31:15
    71%

    15 Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

  • Lam 3:45
    71%

    45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

  • Isa 47:15
    71%

    15 Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.

  • Lam 5:4
    71%

    4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

  • Lev 25:14
    71%

    14 And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

  • Deut 28:68
    71%

    68 And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and no man will take you.

  • Job 22:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6 For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

    7 You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

  • Jer 15:13
    70%

    13 I will give your wealth and your stores to your attackers, without a price, because of all your sins, even in every part of your land.

  • Lev 25:16
    70%

    16 If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

  • Ezek 22:12
    70%

    12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

  • Lev 25:44-45
    2 verses
    70%

    44 But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

    45 And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

  • Mic 6:14
    70%

    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Isa 42:22
    70%

    22 But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.

  • Lev 25:42
    69%

    42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

  • Neh 5:8
    69%

    8 And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

  • Neh 9:37
    69%

    37 And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

  • Mic 2:4
    69%

    4 In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

  • Ezek 27:13
    69%

    13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.

  • Isa 30:5
    68%

    5 For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

  • Deut 2:6
    68%

    6 You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.

  • 1 Sam 12:4
    68%

    4 And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.

  • Neh 5:5
    68%

    5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

  • Ps 66:12
    68%

    12 You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

  • Jer 2:11
    68%

    11 Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.

  • Isa 9:3
    68%

    3 You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

  • Isa 50:1
    68%

    1 This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.

  • Isa 57:12
    68%

    12 I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

  • Ezek 27:33
    68%

    33 When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.

  • Lam 5:8
    68%

    8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.