“ God has made an example of me. People spit in my face.

“神使我作了民中的笑谈；他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。

“上帝使我成为人群中的笑谈，他们吐唾沫在我脸上。

“神使我成为人群中的笑谈，他们吐唾沫在我脸上。

上帝使我成了人们的笑柄，他们在我脸上吐唾沫。

他使我成为民众的笑柄，人人都吐唾沫在我的脸上。

神使我作了民中的笑談；他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。

「上帝使我成為人羣中的笑談，他們吐唾沫在我臉上。

「神使我成為人羣中的笑談，他們吐唾沫在我臉上。

上帝使我成了人們的笑柄，他們在我臉上吐唾沫。

他使我成為民眾的笑柄，人人都吐唾沫在我的臉上。

他使我成為萬族民中的笑談；我也成了被人吐唾沫於臉上的人。

上帝使我為民話柄、彼眾亦唾我面、

民作歌刺我、眾前唾我、主使之然、

天主使民作歌刺我、使人唾我面、使人唾我面或作使我顯然為人厭惡

“ God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.

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

“ God has made a mockery of me among the people; they spit in my face.

He has made me an object of scorn to the people; I have become a man people spit at.

“ But He has made me a proverb among the people, And I am one at whom people spit.

“ But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.

But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

He has made me an object of scorn to the people; I have become a man people spit at.

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

“ But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

“ Now their children laugh at me. They make fun of me with their songs.

The nations make jokes about us. They shake their heads at us.

Then I will remove Israel from the land. It is the land I gave them. I will turn my back on this temple. I will do it even though I have set it apart for my Name to be there. Then Israel will be hated by all the nations. They will laugh and joke about Israel.

They have harps and lyres at their banquets. They have tambourines, flutes and wine. But they don’t have any concern for the mighty acts of the Lord. They don’t have any respect for what his power has done.

Why did you run away in secret and trick me? Why didn’t you tell me? Then I could have sent you away happily. We could have sung to the music of tambourines and harps.