Psalms 44:13
And the daughters of Tyre will entreat your countenance with gifts: all the rich men of the people.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
In Context
12And the king will desire your beauty. For he is the Lord your God, and they will adore him.
14All the glory of the daughter of its king is inside, in golden fringes,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And you will become nothing but a proverb and a fable to all the peoples to whom the Lord will lead you.
Psalms 80:6He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.
Isaiah 52:3For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money.
Jeremiah 48:27For Israel had been a derision to them. It was as if you had discovered him among thieves. Because of your own words, then, which you have spoken against him, you will be led away captive.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 44:10-17
Afflicted Condition of Israel. 9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. 10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. 11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makest us a byword… Read the whole commentary →