Psalm 44:14 {43:14}
Good News Translation
You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.

New Revised Standard Version
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Contemporary English Version
Foreigners joke about us and shake their heads.

New American Bible
You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.

by-word

Deuteronomy 28:37 And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in.

1 Kings 9:7 I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.

2 Chronicles 7:20 I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all nations.

Jeremiah 24:9 And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.

shaking

Psalm 22:7 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.

2 Kings 19:21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin, the daughter of Sion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.

Job 16:4 I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.

Isaiah 37:22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin the daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged the head after thee.

Lamentations 2:15-17 Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth? . . .

Context
Redeem Us
13Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them. 14Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.15Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.…
Cross References
1 Kings 9:7
I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.

2 Kings 19:21
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin, the daughter of Sion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.

Job 17:6
He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.

Psalm 64:8
And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

Psalm 69:11
And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.

Psalm 109:25
And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.

Jeremiah 24:9
And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out.

Jeremiah 33:24
Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them?

Ezekiel 22:4
Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed: and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast made thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all countries.

Ezekiel 36:3
Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Because you have been desolate, and trodden under foot on every side, and made an inheritance to the rest of the nations, and are become the subject of the talk, and the reproach of the people:

Psalm 44:13
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