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Psalm 89:50

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
49Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
51With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
52Blessed be the LORD forever more. Amen, and Amen.
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Notice

The taunts of mighty peoples reach into one person's heart, where the shame borne by God's servants becomes a plea for the Lord to remember.

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Where else Scripture says this

10 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 74:18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.Both prayers ask the Lord to remember mockery, directed at God's servants in Psalm 89 and at God himself in Psalm 74.
Psalm 74:22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.Both appeal to God to remember taunts; Psalm 74 also asks him to arise and plead his own cause.
Ezekiel 36:15“I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any …Both name reproach from the peoples: Psalm 89 asks God to remember it, while Ezekiel records God's promise to end it.
Psalm 69:9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.Both speakers bear reproach themselves, and Psalm 69 identifies its source as those who reproach God.
Lamentations 3:61You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their plans against me,Both address the Lord about reproach, with Lamentations affirming that he has heard what Psalm 89 asks him to remember.
Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.Both plead for remembrance amid suffering, though Job speaks of life's brevity rather than taunts from mighty peoples.
Romans 15:3For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”Both describe someone bearing reproach; Romans names Christ as bearing the reproaches of those who reproached God.
2 Kings 20:3“Remember now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah …Both ask the Lord to remember, though Hezekiah points to his faithful conduct and Psalm 89 to the servants' reproach.
Psalm 44:13–16You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.Both describe shared disgrace under others' contempt, naming mighty peoples in Psalm 89 and surrounding neighbors in Psalm 44.
Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.Both ask for suffering to be remembered, naming taunts in Psalm 89 and affliction and bitterness in Lamentations.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. feeling distant from God.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 89:50 aloud for one person facing ridicule

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Encouragement

There is room in prayer for the words that still wound. Here, a servant brings the burden of public contempt to the Lord while it remains unresolved.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).