Psalms 44:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Ps 79:4 : 4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.
  • Ps 80:6 : 6 You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.
  • Ps 89:41 : 41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.
  • Ps 89:51 : 51 The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us. 4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.
  • Jer 48:27 : 27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.
  • Ezek 36:19-23 : 19 And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts. 20 And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land. 21 But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went. 22 For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went. 23 And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 44:14-17
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    90%

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

    15 My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;

    16 Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

    17 All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • 4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

  • 6 You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

  • Ps 44:9-12
    4 verses
    81%

    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.

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

  • Lam 3:43-46
    4 verses
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    43 Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

    44 Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.

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

    46 The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

  • 41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

  • 12 And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

  • 4 Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

  • 14 And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

  • 7 But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

  • 19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • 3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

  • 22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

  • 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.

  • Ps 123:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

    4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.

  • 1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt.> God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.

  • 24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • 8 But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.

  • 14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

  • 27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.

  • 11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

  • 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?

  • 37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

  • 3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • 7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

  • 11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

  • 51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.

  • 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.

  • 18 Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

  • Ps 22:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

    7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

  • 13 When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

  • 24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • 8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

  • 15 For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

  • 16 Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

  • 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.

  • 6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • 10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?