“And now I have become their (A)song;
    I am (B)a byword to them.

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63 (A)Behold their sitting and their rising;
    (B)I am the object of their taunts.

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“He has made me (A)a byword of the peoples,
    and I am one before whom men spit.

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14 (A)I have become the laughingstock of all peoples,
    (B)the object of their taunts all day long.

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11 When I made (A)sackcloth my clothing,
    I became (B)a byword to them.
12 I am the talk of those who (C)sit in the gate,
    and the drunkards make (D)songs about me.

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14 You have made us (A)a byword among the nations,
    (B)a laughingstock[a] among the peoples.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44:14 Hebrew a shaking of the head

15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
    they gathered together against me;
(A)wretches whom I did not know
    tore at me without ceasing;
16 like profane mockers at a feast,[a]
    they (B)gnash at me with their teeth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 35:16 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain

I am (A)a laughingstock to my friends;
    I, who (B)called to God and he answered me,
    a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

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