Add parallel Print Page Options

15 You have made us a byword to the nations;
    the peoples shake their heads[a] at us.
16 All day long I am confronted by my disgrace,
    and my face is covered with shame
17 as I hear the shouts of taunting and abuse
    and see the hateful enemy seeking revenge.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44:15 Since the People of God have been allowed by God to be conquered, plundered, scattered like sheep, and enslaved by their enemies, their name has been disgraced among the nations (see Deut 28:37; 1 Ki 9:7; Jer 24:10). Shake their heads: a gesture of scorn (see Ps 64:9).