unfoldingWord_en_tn/psa/044/012.md

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sell your people for nothing

When Yahweh allows his people to be taken into slavery they compare it to being sold for no money. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

You make us a rebuke ... a scoffing and a derision ...

(See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism) - These two phrases are parallel emphasizing how they are mocked by the people they live among.

a scoffing and a derision

These two words have the same meaning. They are both nouns meaning something that is mocked or ridiculed. AT: "a mockery and an object of ridicule" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet)

an insult among ... a shaking of the head ...

These phrases are parallel emphasizing how wide-spread their ridicule is among the nations. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)