Psalms 79:4
Convert us, O God. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
5O Lord, God of hosts, how long will you be angry over the prayer of your servant?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And you will become nothing but a proverb and a fable to all the peoples to whom the Lord will lead you.
Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me: “Those who have remained and have been left behind from the captivity, there in the province, are in great affliction and in disgrace. And the wall of Jerusalem has been broken apart, and its gates have been burned with fire.”
Nehemiah 4:1Now it happened that, when Sanballat had heard that we were building the wall, he was very angry. And having been moved exceedingly, he ridiculed the Jews.
Psalms 44:14All the glory of the daughter of its king is inside, in golden fringes,
Jeremiah 24:9And I will give them over, with upheaval and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a disgrace, and a parable, and a proverb, and a curse in all the places to which I have cast them out.
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 →