Psalms 79:4
On every side our neighbors revile us and mock us and jeer at us.
Open English Bible (US)
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 will you be angry, O Lord? Will your jealousy burn like fire forever?
Cross References
Psalms 44:14O’er the world you have made us a byword, the nations at us shake their heads.
Psalms 89:41All who pass on their way despoil him, the scorn of his neighbors is he now.
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 →