You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.
Parallel translations
- WEB You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
- KJV Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
- NKJV You have made us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies laugh among themselves.
- NASB You make us an object of contention to our neighbors, And our enemies laugh among themselves.
- NLT You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations. Our enemies treat us as a joke.
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Quick answer
God has made Israel an object of strife and mockery among surrounding nations. Their humiliation deepens the lament.
Overview
When God withdraws His protecting favor, His people become a byword and a target for scorning enemies. The taunts of the nations were especially painful because they reflected on God's own reputation as Israel's covenant Lord. This drives the prayer for restoration, that God would act for the honor of His name.
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- Ps 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
- Jer 48:27Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.
- Jer 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
- Rev 11:10And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.
- Judg 16:25And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.
- Ezek 36:4therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
- Isa 36:12–20But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
- Isa 36:8Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!
- Ps 44:13–14You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- Isa 37:23Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
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