Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Holman Bible
a laughingstock
International Standard Version
You made us an object lesson among the nations; people shake their heads at us.
A Conservative Version
Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
American Standard Version
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
Amplified
You make us a byword among the nations,
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Bible in Basic English
Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.
Darby Translation
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt set us a parable among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
King James 2000
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.
Modern King James verseion
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.
NET Bible
You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.
New Heart English Bible
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou dust make us, A by-word among the nations, - A shaking of the head among the peoples.
Webster
Thou makest us a by-word 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
Themes
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Became a by-word to neighbouring nations
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 44:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Complaint
13 You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us. 14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples. 15 {All day long} my disgrace [is] before me, and the shame of my face covers me,
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 24:9
And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them.
2 Kings 19:21
This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: She despises you, she scorns you, the virgin daughter of Zion. Behind you the daughter of Jerusalem shakes [her] head.
Job 16:4
I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there.
1 Kings 9:7
then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, [even] the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.
2 Chronicles 7:20
then I will uproot them from upon my land that I have given to them, and this house that I have consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face, and I will make it a proverb and a taunt among all the nations.
Job 17:6
"And he has made me a proverb for [the] peoples, {and I am one before whom people spit}.
Psalm 22:7
All [who] see me mock me. They open wide [their] lips; they shake [the] head, [saying]:
Psalm 109:25
And [so] I am a disgrace to them; [when] they see me, they shake their heads.
Isaiah 37:22
this [is] the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: She shows contempt for you; she derides you, virgin daughter of Zion; she shakes [her] head behind you, daughter of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 2:15-17
They clap hands over you, all who pass along the way; they hiss and they shake their head, at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which it is said, "A perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?"