Psalms 78:4
We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and mockery to those who are around us.
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In Context
5How long, O Lord? Will you be angry until the end? Will your zeal be kindled like a fire?
Cross References
Exodus 13:8And you will explain to your son in that day, saying: ‘This is what the Lord did for me when I was taken away from Egypt.’
Deuteronomy 4:9And so, guard yourself and your soul carefully. You should not forget the words that your eyes have seen, and do not let them be cut away from your heart, throughout all the days of your life. You shall teach them to your sons and to your grandsons,
Deuteronomy 11:19Teach your sons to meditate on them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down or rise up.
Joshua 4:21And he said to the sons of Israel: “When your sons will question their fathers, tomorrow, and they will say to them, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
Psalms 9:14Have mercy on me, Lord. See my humiliation from my enemies.
Psalms 26:7Hear my voice, O Lord, with which I have cried out to you. Have mercy on me, and hear me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:2-9
The Importance of Religious Instruction. 1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord , and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our… Read the whole commentary →