Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 44:13

"Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us." — Psalms 44:13 (ASV)

You make us a reproach to our neighbors - Compare the notes at (Psalms 39:8). The word neighbors here refers to surrounding people or nations. They were reproached, scorned, and derided as forsaken by God, and given up to their foes. They no longer commanded the admiration of mankind as a prosperous, favored, happy people. Surrounding nations treated them with contempt as inspiring no fear, and as having nothing to entitle them to respect.