We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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Gill's Exposition
We are become a reproach to our neighbours,.... That is, those that remained; so the Jews were to the Edomites, especially at the time of the Babylonish captivity, Psa 137:7,
a scorn and derision to…
Barnes' Notes
We are become a reproach to our neighbours - See the language in this verse explained in the notes at Psa 44:13. The words in the Hebrew are the same, and the one seems to have been copied from the…
We have here a sad complaint exhibited in the court of heaven. The world is full of complaints, and so is the church too, for it suffers, not only with it, but from it, as a lily among thorns. God is…
Cambridge Bible
A repetition of Psa 44:13, with the change of -thou makest us" to -we are become." Cp. Psa 80:6; Eze 22:4; Eze 25:6 ff. Dan 9:16 combines this verse with Psa 79:79 a.
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