Psalms 44:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

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  • Jer 24:9 : 9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:21 : 21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
  • Job 16:4 : 4 I too could speak as you do; if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
  • Job 17:6 : 6 He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.
  • Ps 22:7 : 7 All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  • Ps 109:25 : 25 I also have become a reproach to them; when they look upon me, they shake their heads.
  • Isa 37:22 : 22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
  • Lam 2:15-17 : 15 All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads 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 your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly, this is the day we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. 17 The Lord has done what He had planned; He has fulfilled His word that He commanded in the days of old: He has thrown down, and has not pitied: and He has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, He has exalted the strength of your adversaries.

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  • Ps 44:9-13
    5 verses
    90%

    9But You have cast us off and put us to shame; and do not go forth with our armies.

    10You make us turn back from the enemy: and those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

    11You have given us like sheep appointed for food, and have scattered us among the heathen.

    12You sell Your people for nothing and do not increase Your wealth by their price.

    13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are around us.

  • 6You make us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • 4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

  • Ps 44:15-17
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    80%

    15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

    16For the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger.

    17All this has come upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.

  • Lam 3:45-46
    2 verses
    79%

    45You have made us like refuse and scorn among the people.

    46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • 37And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.

  • 16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • 6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

  • 14I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day.

  • 25I also have become a reproach to them; when they look upon me, they shake their heads.

  • 14Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • 19Though You have severely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 7All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

  • 41All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.

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

  • Ps 44:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

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

  • 51We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces; for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

  • 8But you, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall have all the heathen in derision.

  • 16They that see you will look narrowly upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;

  • 15For behold, I will make you small among the nations, and despised among men.

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

  • Dan 9:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us belongs confusion of face, as it is this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You.

    8O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

  • 27For was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For whenever you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.

  • 3These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.

  • 1O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You have been displeased; O turn to us again.

  • 5Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, who are infamous and much vexed.

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

  • 3You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us drink the wine of astonishment.

  • 18Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed Your name.

  • 44You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the nations: a people whom I knew not shall serve me.

  • 3Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • 15All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

  • 8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • 4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorn of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

  • 22But You have utterly rejected us; You are exceedingly angry with us.

  • 20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

  • 11I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintances: those who saw me outside fled from me.

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

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

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

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