God’s Word Translation
Psalms 44:14
14You made our ⌞defeat⌟ a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.
Psalms 44:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
- New International Version (NIV)You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
Context of Psalms 44:14
12You sell your people for almost nothing, and at that price you have gained nothing. 13You made us a disgrace to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us. You made our ⌞defeat⌟ a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us. 15All day long my disgrace is in front of me. Shame covers my face 16because of the words of those who insult and slander us, because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.
Read all of Psalms 44Psalms 44:14 word by word
תְּשִׂימֵ֣נוּ מָ֭שָׁל בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם מְנֽוֹד־רֹ֝֗אשׁ בַּל־אֻמִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 44:14
- Deuteronomy 28:37You will become a thing of horror. All the nations where the Lord will send you will make an example of you and ridicule you.
- 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut Israel out of the land I gave them. I will reject this temple that I declared holy for my name. Israel will be an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.
- 2 Chronicles 7:20then I will uproot Israel from the land I gave them. I will reject this temple that I declared holy for my name. I will make it an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.
- Jeremiah 24:9I will make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. They will be a disgrace and an example. They will become something ridiculed and cursed wherever I scatter them.
- Psalms 22:7All who see me make fun of me. Insults pour from their mouths. They shake their heads and say,
- 2 Kings 19:21This is the message that the Lord speaks to him, ‘My dear people in Zion despise you and laugh at you. My people in Jerusalem shake their heads behind your back.
- Job 16:4I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.
- Isaiah 37:22This is the message that the Lord speaks to him, ‘My dear people in Zion despise you and laugh at you. My people in Jerusalem shake their heads behind your back.
- Lamentations 2:15Everyone who walks along the road shakes a fist at you. They hiss and shake their heads at Jerusalem’s people: ‘Is this the city they used to call absolutely beautiful, the joy of the whole world?’
Commentaries on Psalms 44:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Thou makest us a byword - We are evidently abandoned by thee, and are become so very miserable in consequence, that we are a proverb among the people: "See the Hebrews! see their misery and wretchedness! see how low the wrath of God has brought down an offending people!" And the worst curse that can be imprecated against a wicked nation is: "Mayest thou become as wretched as the Jews;" or as the old Psalter: Thou has seet us reprove til our neghburs…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Thou makest us a byword among heathen - The word rendered “by-word” - משׁל mâshâl - means properly a similitude or parable; then, a sententious saying, and apophthegm; then, a proverb; then, a song or verse, particularly a satirical song, or a song of derision. The idea here is, that they were made a proverb, or were referred to as a striking instance of the divine abandonment, or as something marked to which the nations might and did refer as an…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-16Verses 9-16 The believer must have times of temptation, affliction, and discouragement; the church must have seasons of persecution. At such times the people of God will be ready to fear that he has cast them off, and that his name and truth will be dishonoured. But they should look above the instruments of their trouble, to God, well knowing that their worst enemies have no power against them, but what is permitted from above.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-16The people have experienced defeat (Psalm 44:9–12), so they understand suffering and shame (44:13–16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-1413-14. (Compare De 28:37; Psa 79:4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 44
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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