Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou makest us a byword among the Heathen,.... Among the Papists, as the Jews were among the Gentiles, Deu 28:37; calling them schismatics, heretics, fanatics, and what not?
a shaking of the head…
Barnes' Notes
Thou makest us a byword among heathen - The word rendered “by-word” - משׁל mâshâl - means properly a similitude or parable; then, a sententious saying, and apophthegm; then, a proverb; then, a song…
The people of God here complain to him of the low and afflicted condition that they were now in, under the prevailing power of their enemies and oppressors, which was the more grievous to them because…
Cambridge Bible
the heathen … the people Render with R.V., the nations … the peoples. They point to our fate as a proverbial instance of a people abandoned by its God, and make us the subject of taunting songs: they…
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