Psalms 44:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Ps 8:2 : 2 You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.
  • Ps 74:10 : 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?
  • Ps 74:18 : 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 74:22-23 : 22 Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day. 23 Keep in mind the voice of your haters; the outcry of those who come against you goes up every day.
  • Ps 79:12 : 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.
  • Isa 37:3-4 : 3 And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them. 4 It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.
  • Isa 37:17 : 17 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.
  • Isa 37:23-24 : 23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel. 24 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.

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  • Ps 74:10
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    10O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

  • Ps 44:13-15
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    13You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

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

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

  • Ps 74:18
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    18Keep 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 55:3
    78%

    3I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

  • Jer 20:10-11
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    77%

    10For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

    11But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • Job 16:9-10
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    9I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

    10Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Ps 79:4
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    4We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

  • Ps 44:17
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    17All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • Ps 139:20
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    20For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.

  • Lam 3:46
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    46The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

  • Ps 89:41
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    41All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

  • Ps 89:50-51
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    50Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;

    51The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

  • Ps 35:26
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    26Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

  • Ps 44:10
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    10Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

  • Job 19:3
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    3Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

  • Ps 69:7
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    7I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.

  • Jer 20:8
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    8For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

  • Job 13:24
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    24Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • Ps 79:12
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    12And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

  • Ps 44:24
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    24Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • Neh 4:4
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    4Give 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:

  • Jer 15:15
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    15O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;

  • Isa 66:6
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    6There is a noise of war from the town, a sound from the Temple, the voice of the Lord giving punishment to his haters.

  • Ps 80:6
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    6You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

  • Ps 69:19
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    19You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

  • Ps 109:20
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    20Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

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    61Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;

  • Lam 2:16
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    16All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

  • Jer 51:51
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    51We 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.

  • Ps 44:19
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    19Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • Ps 40:14-15
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    72%

    14Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

    15Let those who say to me, Aha, aha! be surprised because of their shame.

  • Job 19:5
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    5If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • Ps 31:11
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    11Because 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.

  • Lam 5:1
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    1Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

  • Isa 37:23
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    23Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Ps 83:16
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    16Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.

  • Ps 42:10
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    10The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

  • Ps 35:15
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    15But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

  • Ps 69:26
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    26Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

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    22Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.

  • Ps 44:7
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    7But 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.

  • Ps 7:4
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    4If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;