Psalm 44:14

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Latin

Posuisti nos in similitudinem gentibus; commotionem capitis in populis.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

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

Related verses

Jeremiah 24:9
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.
Job 16:4
I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
Job 17:6
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
Deuteronomy 28:37
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
2 Kings 19:21
This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
Lamentations 2:15–17
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
Psalm 109:25
I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
2 Chronicles 7:20
…then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
Isaiah 37:22
…this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
1 Kings 9:7
…then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
Psalm 22:7
All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

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