Psalms 79:4
Turn us, O God, 1 And cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
3Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, 1 Stir up thy power, 1 And come to deliver us. 1
5O Lord God of hosts, 1 How long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant? 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt be there for a wonder, and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord thy God shall carry thee away.
Psalms 44:14All her glory is that of the daughter of the king of Heshbon, 1 Robed as she is in golden fringed garments,
Jeremiah 24:9And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an object of hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven 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 →