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Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh us to scorn.

New American Standard Bible

You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.

King James Version

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Holman Bible

You make us quarrel with our neighbors;
our enemies make fun of us.

International Standard Version

You have set us at strife against our neighbors and our enemies deride us.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.

Amplified


You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh [at our suffering] among themselves.

Bible in Basic English

You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

Darby Translation

Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou wilt set us a strife to our neighbors, and our enemies will deride to themselves.

King James 2000

You make us a strife unto our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have made us [an object of] strife to our neighbors, and our enemies mock among themselves.

Modern King James verseion

You make us a strife for our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.

NET Bible

You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us.

New Heart English Bible

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou dost make us an object of contention to our neighbours, And, our foes, find mockery for themselves.

Webster

Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

World English Bible

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies mock at it.

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Context Readings

Restore Us, O God

5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, yea thou hast given them plenteousness of tears to drink. 6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh us to scorn. 7 Turn us again, thou God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

Cross References

Psalm 79:4

We are become an open shame unto our enemies, a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us.

Judges 16:25

And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Send for Samson and let him play before us." And they fetched Samson out of the prison house, and he played before them, and they set him between the pillars.

Psalm 44:13-14

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.

Isaiah 36:8

Now therefore deliver hostages that thou rebel no more against my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give thee two thousand horses if thou be able to set men upon them.

Isaiah 36:12-20

Then answered Rabshakeh, "Think ye, that the king sent me to speak this only unto you? Hath he not sent me to them also, that lie upon the wall? That they be not compelled to eat their own dung, and drink their own stale with you?"

Isaiah 37:23

But thou Sennacherib, whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice, and exalted thy proud looks? Even against the holy one of Israel.

Jeremiah 15:10

O mother, alas that ever thou didst bear me, an enemy and hated of the whole land: Though I never lent nor received upon usury, yet all men speak evil upon me.

Jeremiah 48:27

O Israel, shalt thou not laugh him to scorn, when he is taken among thieves? Yea, because of thy words that thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be driven away.

Ezekiel 36:4

Therefore, hear the word of the LORD God, O ye mountains of Israel. Thus sayeth the LORD God unto the mountains, and hills; valleys and dales; to the void wilderness and desolate cities, which are spoiled and had in derision on every side among the residue of the Heathen.

Revelation 11:10

And they that dwell upon the earth, shall rejoice over them and be glad, and shall send gifts one to another: for these two prophets vexed them that dwelt on the earth.

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