Psalms 44:14

World English Bible (2000)

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

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  • Jer 24:9 : 9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; 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 Yahweh has spoken concerning him: "The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
  • Job 16:4 : 4 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
  • Job 17:6 : 6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
  • Ps 22:7 : 7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
  • Ps 109:25 : 25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
  • Isa 37:22 : 22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.
  • 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 made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
  • Lam 2:15-17 : 15 All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; 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 Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

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  • Ps 44:9-13
    5 verses
    90%

    9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies.

    10 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

    11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

    12 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

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

  • 6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

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

  • Ps 44:15-17
    3 verses
    80%

    15 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

    16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

    17 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

  • Lam 3:45-46
    2 verses
    79%

    45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

    46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

  • 37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.

  • 16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • 6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

  • 14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • 25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

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

  • 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

  • 41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • 4 "Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

  • Ps 44:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

    25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

  • 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house.

  • 8 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

  • 16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

  • 15 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

  • 7 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

  • Dan 9:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

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

  • 27 For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

  • 3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

  • 1 God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

  • 5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.

  • 22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

  • 3 You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

  • 18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

  • 44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

  • 3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

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

  • 8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.

  • 22 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

  • 20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

  • 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

  • 21 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: "The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

  • 16 Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

  • 4 In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"

  • 16 They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.