Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples.
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.
Themes
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Became a by-word to neighbouring nations
Topics
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 44:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Complaint
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders. 14 Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples. 15 All the day my confusion is before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 24:9
And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.
2 Kings 19:21
this is the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: 'Trampled on thee -- laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head -- Hath the daughter of Jerusalem?
Job 16:4
I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
Deuteronomy 28:37
and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.
1 Kings 9:7
then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples;
2 Chronicles 7:20
and this house that I have sanctified for My name, I cast from before My face, and make it for a proverb, and for a byword, among all the peoples.
Job 17:6
And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
Psalm 22:7
All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip -- shake the head,
Psalm 109:25
And I -- I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.
Isaiah 37:22
this is the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: Trampled on thee, laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion, Behind thee shaken the head hath the daughter of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 2:15-17
Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed -- and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: 'Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?'