Psalm 44:14

Israel's Complaint

¹³ You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.
¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations,
A laughingstock among the peoples.
¹⁵ All day long my dishonor is before me
And my humiliation has overwhelmed me,

Among the Nations

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:
‘She has despised you and mocked you,
The virgin daughter of Zion;
She has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!

Job 16:4

“I too could speak like you,
If I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Job 17:6

“But He has made me a byword of the people,
And I am one at whom men spit.

Psalm 22:7

All who see me sneer at me;
They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying,

Psalm 109:25

I also have become a reproach to them;
When they see me, they wag their head.

Isaiah 37:22

this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:
“She has despised you and mocked you,
The virgin daughter of Zion;
She has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!

Lamentations 2:15-17

All who pass along the way
Clap their hands in derision at you;
They hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘The perfection of beauty,
A joy to all the earth’?”