New American Standard Bible 2020
Psalms 79:4
4We have become a 1disgrace before our neighbors, An object of derision 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 have given the dead bodies of Your servants to the birds of the sky as food, The flesh of Your godly ones to the animals of the earth. 3They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem; And there was no one to bury them. We have become a disgrace before our neighbors, An object of derision and ridicule to those around us. 5How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? 6Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You, And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.
Read all of Psalms 79Psalms 79:4 word by word
הָיִ֣ינוּ חֶ֭רְפָּה לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ לַ֥עַג וָ֝קֶ֗לֶס לִסְבִיבוֹתֵֽינוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 79:4
- Psalms 44:13You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, Of scoffing and ridicule to those around us.
- Psalms 80:6You make us an object of contention to our neighbors, And our enemies laugh among themselves.
- Psalms 89:41All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.
- Deuteronomy 28:37And you will become an object of horror, a song of mockery, and an object of taunting among all the peoples where the Lord drives you.
- Jeremiah 24:9I will make them an object of terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all the places where I will scatter them.
- Jeremiah 25:18To Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
- Jeremiah 42:18For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “As My anger and wrath have gushed out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will gush out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a disgrace; and you will not see this place again.”
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass along the way Clap their hands in ridicule at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city of which they said, ‘Perfect in beauty, A joy to all the earth’?”
- Lamentations 5:1Remember, Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and see our disgrace!
- Ezekiel 35:12Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘They are desolate; they have been given to us as food.’
- Ezekiel 36:3therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “For good reason they have made you desolate and harassed you from every side, so that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations; and you have been taken up in the talk and the rumor of the people.”’”
- 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut Israel off from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will expel from My sight. So Israel will become a saying and an object of derision among all peoples.
- Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
- Nehemiah 4:1Now it came about that when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious and very angry, and 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
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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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