Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

International Standard Version

You made us a laughing stock to our neighbors, a source of mockery and derision to those around us.

American Standard Version

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.

Amplified


You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

Bible in Basic English

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

Darby Translation

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;

Julia Smith Translation

Thou wilt set us a reproach to our neighbors, and a derision and scorn to them round about us.

King James 2000

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

Modern King James verseion

You make us a curse to our neighbors, a scorn and a mockery to those who are round about us.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us.

NET Bible

You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

New Heart English Bible

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou dust make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us:

Webster

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us.

World English Bible

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Israel's Complaint

12 Thou sell thy people for nothing, and have not increased by their price. 13 Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us. 14 Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Cross References

Psalm 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.

Psalm 80:6

Thou make us hatred to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Deuteronomy 28:37

And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where LORD shall lead thee away.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Psalm 89:51

with which thine enemies have reproached, O LORD, with which they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Psalm 123:3-4

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 48:27

For was not Israel a derision to thee? Was he found among thieves? For as often as thou speak of him, thou wag the head.

Ezekiel 36:19-23

And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their doings.

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