Psalms 44:14
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
In Context
13Thou hast sold thy people for no price : and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
15Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles : a shaking of the head among the people.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in.
2 Kings 19:21This is the word, that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin the daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.
Nehemiah 2:17Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.
Job 17:6He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
Psalms 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 123:3Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.
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 →