Psalm 44:13

Translations

Modern

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

Traditional

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Literal

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

Latin

Posuisti nos opprobrium vicinis nostris; subsannationem et derisum his qui sunt in circuitu nostro.

Original

Hebrew

English

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

Notes

Psalms 44:9–16

The people have experienced defeat (Psalm 44:9–12), so they understand suffering and shame (44:13–16).

Psalms 44:1–26

This national lament after a defeat in battle continues the tone of the previous two psalms. It reflects on an unspecified moment in Israel's history and calls on God for salvation. The people:

recite God's past acts of rescue (Psalm 44:1–3),
recognize God's power to save (Psalm 44:4–8),
describe their humiliation in exile (Psalm 44:9–16),
claim their innocence and lament the injustice of their current situation (Psalm 44:17–22), and
cry for vindication (Psalm 44:23–26).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints

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Psalm 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
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You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.
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I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
Deuteronomy 28:37
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Ezekiel 36:19–23
I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds.
Psalm 89:41
All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Psalm 123:3–4
Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
Psalm 89:51
…how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
Jeremiah 48:27
Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

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