All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
Parallel translations
- WEB All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
- BSB All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
- NKJV All who pass by the way plunder him; He is a reproach to his neighbors.
- NASB All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.
- NLT Everyone who comes along has robbed him, and he has become a joke to his neighbors.
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Quick answer
Passersby plunder the king, and he has become an object of scorn to his neighbors.
Overview
Stripped of defenses, the king is robbed and shamed before surrounding nations. The reproach heightens the apparent contradiction of God's promises. This humiliation foreshadows the scorn endured by Christ, despised and rejected for our sake (Isa. 53:3; Ps. 22:6-7).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Ps 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
- Isa 10:6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
- Jer 24:9And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
- Ps 44:10–14Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
- Lam 5:1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- Jer 50:17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
- Ezek 5:14–15Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
- Ps 80:13The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
- Jer 42:18For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
- Neh 5:9Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
- Dan 9:16O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
- Jer 44:8In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
- Jer 29:18And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
- Deut 28:37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
- Ps 74:10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
- Jer 44:12And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
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