Psalms 44:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 24:9 : 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 whither I shall drive them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:21 : 21 This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
  • Job 16:4 : 4 I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
  • Job 17:6 : 6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
  • Ps 22:7 : 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
  • Ps 109:25 : 25 I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
  • Isa 37:22 : 22 This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 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:
  • Lam 2:15-17 : 15 All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it]. 17 The LORD hath done [that] which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused [thine] enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 44:9-13
    5 verses
    90%

    9¶ But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

    10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

    11Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

    12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price.

    13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

  • 6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • 4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

  • Ps 44:15-17
    3 verses
    80%

    15My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

    16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

    17¶ All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

  • Lam 3:45-46
    2 verses
    79%

    45Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

    46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • 37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

  • 16To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

  • 6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

  • 14I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.

  • 25I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

  • 14Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that [are] round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • 19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],

  • 41All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

  • 4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

  • Ps 44:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

    25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

  • 51We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

  • 8¶ But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.

  • 16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

  • 15For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, [and] despised among men.

  • 7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

  • Dan 9:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7O Lord, righteousness [belongeth] unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that are] near, and [that are] far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

    8O Lord, to us [belongeth] confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

  • 27For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

  • 3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.

  • 1¶ To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

  • 5[Those that be] near, and [those that be] far from thee, shall mock thee, [which art] infamous [and] much vexed.

  • 22This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

  • 3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

  • 18¶ Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

  • 44Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me.

  • 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

  • 15All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

  • 8Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

  • 4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.

  • 22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

  • 20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

  • 11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

  • 21This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

  • 16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

  • 4In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed [it] from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

  • 16They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols.