All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.
Parallel translations
- WEB My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
- KJV Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
- NKJV My enemies reproach me all day long; Those who deride me swear an oath against me.
- NASB ¶My enemies have taunted me all day long; Those who deride me have used my name as a curse.
- NLT My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me.
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Quick answer
His enemies taunt him all day and use his name as a curse. He suffers scorn on top of his affliction.
Overview
Added to physical and emotional anguish is the reproach of enemies who mock him continually. To be used 'as a curse' meant his name became a byword for misery. This experience of being despised foreshadows the reproach borne by Christ, who endured the scorn of men for our sake.
Cross-references & the web
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- Acts 26:11I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
- Ps 69:9–10because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
- Acts 23:12–35When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
- Isa 65:15You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
- Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
- Ps 89:51how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
- Ps 31:11–13Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends—they flee when they see me on the street.
- Ps 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Rom 15:3For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”
- Ps 69:20Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
- Ps 55:3at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.
- Luke 6:11But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
- Jer 29:22Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
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