Psalm 44:14 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁴ Thou hast made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, A shaking of the head among the people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the heads among the people.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ You’ve made us a bad joke to the nations, something to be laughed at by all peoples.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ All the glory of the daughter of its king is inside, in golden fringes,

Psalm 44:14 Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: ‘She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you— the daughter of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will pluck you up from the land which I have given you; and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer disgrace.”

Job 16:4

I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

Job 17:6

“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

Psalm 109:25

I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.

Psalm 123:3

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

Psalm 22:7

All who see me mock at me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads;

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those round about us.

Isaiah 37:22

this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: “ ‘She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you— the daughter of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

Micah 6:16

For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of the peoples.”

Deuteronomy 28:37

And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.