Psalm 109:25 {108:25}
Good News Translation
When people see me, they laugh at me; they shake their heads in scorn.

New Revised Standard Version
I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Contemporary English Version
When my enemies see me, they say cruel things and shake their heads.

New American Bible
I have become a mockery to them; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.

a reproach

Psalm 31:11-13 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintances. They that saw me without fled from me. . . .

Psalm 35:15,16 But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not. . . .

Psalm 69:9-12,19,20 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. . . .

Romans 15:3 For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

Hebrews 12:2 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 13:13 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

when they

Psalm 22:6,7 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people. . . .

Job 16:4 I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.

Isaiah 37:22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin the daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged the head after thee.

Matthew 27:39,40 And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, . . .

Context
The Song of the Slandered
24My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil. 25And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.26Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:39
And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

Mark 15:29
And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days buildest it up again:

2 Kings 19:21
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin, the daughter of Sion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.

Job 16:4
I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.

Psalm 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Psalm 22:7
All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.

Psalm 44:14
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.

Jeremiah 18:16
That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.

Lamentations 2:15
Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth?

Psalm 109:24
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