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King James Version

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

New American Standard Bible

You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.

Holman Bible

You make us quarrel with our neighbors;
our enemies make fun of us.

International Standard Version

You have set us at strife against our neighbors and our enemies deride us.

A Conservative Version

Thou make us hatred to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

American Standard Version

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.

Amplified


You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh [at our suffering] among themselves.

Bible in Basic English

You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

Darby Translation

Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou wilt set us a strife to our neighbors, and our enemies will deride to themselves.

King James 2000

You make us a strife unto our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have made us [an object of] strife to our neighbors, and our enemies mock among themselves.

Modern King James verseion

You make us a strife for our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh us to scorn.

NET Bible

You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us.

New Heart English Bible

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou dost make us an object of contention to our neighbours, And, our foes, find mockery for themselves.

Webster

Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

World English Bible

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies mock at it.

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Context Readings

Restore Us, O God

5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.


Cross References

Psalm 79:4

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Judges 16:25

And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

Psalm 44:13-14

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Isaiah 36:8

Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

Isaiah 36:12-20

But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

Isaiah 37:23

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Jeremiah 48:27

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

Ezekiel 36:4

Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;

Revelation 11:10

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

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