Discovery BoxPsalms 44:10-14 
Context44:10 You made us retreat 1 from the enemy.
Those who hate us take whatever they want from us. 2
44:11 You handed us 3 over like sheep to be eaten;
you scattered us among the nations.
44:12 You sold 4 your people for a pittance; 5
you did not ask a high price for them. 6
44:13 You made us 7 an object of disdain to our neighbors;
those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. 8
44:14 You made us 9 an object of ridicule 10 among the nations;
foreigners treat us with contempt. 11
1 tn Heb “you caused us to turn backward.”
2 tn Heb “plunder for themselves.” The prepositional phrase לָמוֹ (lamo, “for themselves”) here has the nuance “at their will” or “as they please” (see Ps 80:6).
3 tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).
4 tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).
5 tn Heb “for what is not wealth.”
6 tn Heb “you did not multiply their purchase prices.”
7 tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).
8 tn Heb “an [object of] taunting and [of] mockery to those around us.”
9 tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).
10 tn Heb “a proverb,” or “[the subject of] a mocking song.”
11 tn Heb “a shaking of the head among the peoples.” Shaking the head was a derisive gesture (see Jer 18:16; Lam 2:15).
