Psalms 44:13

13 You made us a disgrace to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

Psalms 44:13 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 44:13

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours
Which is the common lot of Christians: Christ and his apostles have given reason for the saints in all ages to expect it, and have fortified their minds to bear it patiently, yea, to esteem it an honour, and greater riches than the treasures of the antichristian Egypt; a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us;
being always represented as mean and despicable, and reckoned ignorant and accursed, and as the faith of the world, and the offscouring of all things.

Psalms 44:13 In-Context

11 You hand us over to be butchered like sheep and scatter us among the nations.
12 You sell your people for almost nothing, and at that price you have gained nothing.
13 You made us a disgrace to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.
14 You made our [defeat] a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.
15 All day long my disgrace is in front of me. Shame covers my face
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