Psalms 44:13

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁹But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies. ¹⁰You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us. ¹¹You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations. ¹²You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale. ¹³You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.¹⁴You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples. ¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me and shame has covered my face, ¹⁶at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

makest: Psalms 79:4, Psalms 80:6, Psalms 89:51, Jeremiah 24:9, Ezekiel 36:19-23

scorn: Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, Jeremiah 48:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:9 - mocking Deuteronomy 28:37 - become 1 Samuel 17:26 - reproach Nehemiah 2:17 - a reproach Nehemiah 2:19 - they Nehemiah 4:1 - mocked Psalms 39:8 - make Psalms 69:11 - I became Psalms 89:50 - General Jeremiah 30:17 - they Jeremiah 33:24 - thus Jeremiah 51:51 - shame Lamentations 3:14 - General Lamentations 3:46 - have Lamentations 5:1 - behold Ezekiel 14:8 - a sign Ezekiel 22:4 - have I Ezekiel 36:3 - and ye Micah 6:16 - therefore Zechariah 8:13 - a curse

Cross-References

Genesis 44:29
So if you take this one from me as well and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'

Genesis 44:34
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him."

Numbers 14:6
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

2 Samuel 1:2
On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul's camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.

2 Samuel 1:11
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and all the men who were with him did the same.

2 Samuel 13:19
And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying bitterly.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours,.... Which is the common lot of Christians: Christ and his apostles have given reason for the saints in all ages to expect it, and have fortified their minds to bear it patiently, yea, to esteem it an honour, and greater riches than the treasures of the antichristian Egypt;

a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us; being always represented as mean and despicable, and reckoned ignorant and accursed, and as the faith of the world, and the offscouring of all things.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors - Compare the notes at Psalms 39:8. The word neighbors here refers to surrounding people or nations. They were reproached, scorned, and derided as forsaken by God, and given up to their foes. They no longer commanded the admiration of mankind as a prosperous, favored, happy people. Surrounding nations treated them with contempt as inspiring no fear, and as having nothing to entitle them to respect.