Psalms 44:13
You have made a mockery of us before our neighbors, we are ridiculed and laughed at by those around us.
Free Bible 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
12You have sold your own people for next to nothing, making no profit on the sale.
14You have made us a joke to the other nations; they scornfully shake their heads at us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37You will be something that horrifies all the nations where you've been exiled by the Lord. They will laugh at you and ridicule you.
Psalms 80:6You turn us into victims our neighbors fight over; our enemies mock us.
Psalms 89:51Your enemies taunt me, Lord, mocking your king wherever he goes.
Isaiah 52:3This is what the Lord says: You were sold for nothing, and you will be bought back without money.
Jeremiah 48:27Didn't you Moabites used to ridicule the Israelites? But they weren't ever found to be thieves, were they? Yet whenever you talk about them, you shake your heads in contempt.
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 →