Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
Parallel translations
- WEB My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
- BSB All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse 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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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 26:11And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
- Ps 69:9–10For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
- Acts 23:12–35And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
- Isa 65:15And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
- Acts 7:54When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
- Ps 89:51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
- Ps 31:11–13I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
- Ps 2:1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Rom 15:3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
- Ps 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
- Ps 55:3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
- Luke 6:11And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
- Jer 29:22And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
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