Psalm 79:4

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Modern

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

Traditional

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Literal

We have become a reproach for our neighbors, a mocking and derision for those around us.

Latin

Facti sumus opprobrium vicinis nostris; subsannatio et illusio his qui in circuitu nostro sunt.

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English

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

Notes

Psalms 79:1–4

The poet laments the defilement of the temple and the success of the enemy.

Psalms 79:1–13

This lament describes the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC. Israel’s early history of rebellion, described in Psalm 78, angered God. As a result, Zion was destroyed. The temple was defiled, and the bodies of the dead lay across the land.

The psalmist then prays for forgiveness and rescue (Psalm 79:8–9) and asks God to repay the nation's enemies (Psalm 79:12–13). Other psalms lamenting the exile include Psalms 42–44, 102, 107, 126, and 137.

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Psalm 80:6
You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
Psalm 89:41
All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Ezekiel 36:15
I will no longer allow the taunts of the nations to be heard against you, and you will no longer endure the reproach of the peoples or cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.”
Nehemiah 2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
1 Kings 9:7
…then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
Ezekiel 36:3
…therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
Jeremiah 42:18
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
Psalm 44:13–14
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
Lamentations 2:15–16
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
Nehemiah 4:1–4
Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews
Ezekiel 35:12
Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’

Psalm 79:4

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