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13Thou makest{H8799)} us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
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We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)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 they were now trampled upon, who had always been used, in their struggles with their neighbours, to win the day and get the upper hand, and because those were now their oppressors whom they had many…
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