Psalm 79:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ We have become a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a mockery to those who are around us.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ [Because of such humiliation] we have become a taunt and reproach to our neighbors, a mocking and derision to those who are round about us.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.

Common English Bible

⁴ We’ve become a joke to our neighbors, nothing but objects of ridicule and disapproval to those around us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Convert us, O God. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.

Psalm 79:4 Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

then I shall cut off Yisra’ĕ

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity in the province are there in great evil and reproach. And the wall of Yerushalayim is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Ḥ

Psalm 80:6

You have made us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass by the way plunder him; He is a reproach to his neighbours.

Isaiah 43:28

“So I have profaned the chief ones of the set-apart place, and I have delivered up Yaʽ

Jeremiah 24:9

‘And I shall make them a horror to all the reigns of the earth, for evil, to be a reproach and a byword, a mockery and a curse, in all the places to which I drive them.

Jeremiah 25:18

namely Yerushalayim and the cities of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 42:18

“For thus said יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 51:51

We are ashamed because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the set-apart places of the House of יהוה.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people are sighing, seeking bread. They have given their precious matters For food, to bring back life. “See, O יהוה, and look, For I have become despised.”

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O יהוה, what has come upon us. Look, and see our reproach!

Ezekiel 22:5

“Those near and those far from you mock you – defiled is your name and great the confusion!

Ezekiel 35:12

“And you shall know that I am יהוה. I have heard all your scorns which you have spoken against the mountains of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 36:15

“And no longer shall I let you hear the insults of the gentiles. And the reproach of the peoples you shall bear no more, and no longer cause your nations to stumble,” declares the Master יהוה.’ ”

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy, and you shall say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Because they laid you waste and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the gentiles, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people,”

Daniel 9:16

“O יהוה, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your displeasure and Your wrath be turned away from Your city Yerushalayim, Your set-apart mountain. For, because of our sins, and because of the crookednesses of our fathers, Yerushalayim and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.

Zephaniah 3:18

“I shall gather those who grieve about the appointed place, who are among you, to whom its reproach is a burden.

Zechariah 8:13

‘And it shall be, as you were a curse among the gentiles, O house of Yehuḏ

Deuteronomy 28:37

“Thus you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a mockery among all the peoples to which יהוה  drives you.