Psalms 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
World English Bible
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
3They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
5How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
Nehemiah 4:1But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
Psalms 44:14You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Psalms 89:41All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Jeremiah 24:9I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.
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 →