All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.
Parallel translations
- WEB All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
- KJV All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
- 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.
- 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 have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
- Isa 10:6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
- Jer 24:9I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
- Ps 44:10–14You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
- Lam 5:1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
- Jer 50:17“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
- Ezek 5:14–15“‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
- Ps 80:13The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
- Jer 42:18For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured out on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.’
- Neh 5:9Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
- Dan 9:16Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
- Jer 44:8in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
- Jer 29:18I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;
- Deut 28:37You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
- Ps 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
- Jer 44:12I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall in the land of Egypt. They will be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine. They will be an object of horror, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
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