KJV King James Version
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price.
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Psalm 44:12
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
WEB World English Bible
You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased thy wealth by their price.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thou sellest Thy people—without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.
Surrounding context — Psalm 44
9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
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Jeremiah 15:13Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.Deuteronomy 32:30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?Isaiah 52:3-4For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.Isaiah 50:1Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.Judges 2:14And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.Judges 3:8Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.Revelation 18:13And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.Nehemiah 5:8-12And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing [to answer].
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