Psalms 44:13

13 You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn 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 have given us as sheep [for] food, and among the nations you have scattered us.

12 You have sold your people {cheaply}, and did not profit by their price.

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,