Psalm 44:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

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

2 Kings 19:21

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

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will pluck you up from the land that 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 rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer suffer disgrace.”

Job 16:4

I also could talk 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 people spit.

Psalm 109:25

I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake 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 me; they sneer at me; they shake their heads;

Psalm 79:4

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

Isaiah 37:22

this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you; she scorns you— virgin daughter Zion; she tosses her head—behind your back, daughter Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horror, an evil thing, to all the kingdoms of the earth—a disgrace, 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 followed their counsels. Therefore I will make you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of hissing, so you shall bear the scorn of my people.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you.