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Psalms 44:14
Psalms 44:14 is verse 14 of Psalms chapter 44, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Literally a shaking of the head
King James Version
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
World English Bible
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
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Psalms 44:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
15 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
16 at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
1 Kings 9:7then 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.
2 Chronicles 7:20then 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.
Jeremiah 24:9I 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.
Psalms 22:7All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
2 Kings 19:21This 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.
Job 16:4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
Isaiah 37:22this 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 2:15All 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?”
Lamentations 2:16All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
Lamentations 2:17The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.