Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 79:4
4We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.
Psalms 79:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
- New International Version (NIV)We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.
- English Standard Version (ESV)We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
- New King James Version (NKJV)We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are around us.
Context of Psalms 79:4
2They gave the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky for food, the flesh of your faithful ones to the beasts of the earth. 3They poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them. We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us. 5How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy keep burning like fire? 6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
Read all of Psalms 79Psalms 79:4 word by word
הָיִ֣ינוּ חֶ֭רְפָּה לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ לַ֥עַג וָ֝קֶ֗לֶס לִסְבִיבוֹתֵֽינוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 79:4
- Psalms 44:13You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.
- Psalms 80:6You put us at odds with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.
- Psalms 89:41All who pass by plunder him; he has become an object of ridicule to his neighbors.
- Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.
- Jeremiah 24:9I will make them an object of horror and a disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, an example for disgrace, scorn, ridicule, and cursing, wherever I have banished them.
- Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an example for scorn and cursing — as it is today;
- Jeremiah 42:18“For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem’s residents, so will my fury pour out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an example for cursing, scorn, execration, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass by scornfully clap their hands at you. They hiss and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
- Lamentations 5:1Lord, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace!
- Ezekiel 35:12Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the blasphemies you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate. They have been given to us to devour!”
- Ezekiel 36:3therefore, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,
- 1 Kings 9:7I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
- Nehemiah 2:19When Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked and despised us, and said, “What is this you’re doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
- Nehemiah 4:1When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious. He mocked the Jews
Commentaries on Psalms 79:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4We are become a reproach to our neighbors - The Idumeans, Philistines, Phoenicians, Ammonites, and Moabites, all gloried in the subjugation of this people; and their insults to them were mixed with blasphemies against God.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4We are become a reproach to our neighbours - See the language in this verse explained in the notes at Psalm 44:13. The words in the Hebrew are the same, and the one seems to have been copied from the other.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-4The poet laments the defilement of the temple and the success of the enemy.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. (Compare Psa 44:13; Jr 42:18; La 2:15).Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Psalms 79
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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