Psalms 44:14
Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
In Context
13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
15All the day my confusion [is] before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.
2 Kings 19:21this [is] the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: 'Trampled on thee — laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head — Hath the daughter of Jerusalem?
Nehemiah 2:17and I say unto them, 'Ye are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem [is] waste, and its gates have been burnt with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not any more a reproach.'
Job 17:6And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
Psalms 79:4We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.
Psalms 123:3Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with 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 →