Psalms 79:4
We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
In Context
5How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.
Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.
Nehemiah 4:1Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.
Psalms 44:14\44:13\You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.
Psalms 89:41\89:40\All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.
Jeremiah 24:9I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 79:2-6
Mournful Complaints. 1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 5 How long, Lord ? wilt thou be… Read the whole commentary →