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Psalms 79:4
4We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)We are mocked by our neighbors, an object of scorn and derision to those around us.
Context of Psalms 79:4
2They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild. 3They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us. 5How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire? 6Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not 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 have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.
- Psalms 80:6You have made us an object of derision to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us.
- Psalms 89:41All who pass by have plundered him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
- Deuteronomy 28:37You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.
- Jeremiah 24:9I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a curse and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish them.
- Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn, a curse—as they are today;
- Jeremiah 42:18This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and wrath have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach; you will never see this place again.’
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff 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 5:1Remember, Lord, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
- Ezekiel 35:12Then you will know that I the Lord have heard all the contemptible things you have said against the mountains of Israel. You said, “They have been laid waste and have been given over to us to devour.”
- Ezekiel 36:3Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,
- 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
- Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. “What is this you are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”
- Nehemiah 4:1When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed 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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