Parallel Verses

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.

A Conservative Version

Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about 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 You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them. 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Cross References

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

Psalm 80:6

You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Deuteronomy 28:37

And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

Psalm 89:51

with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.

Psalm 123:3-4

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 48:27

Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?

Ezekiel 36:19-23

I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.

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