Psalm 79:4

Modern English Version

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those who are around us.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel out of the land which I have given them, and I will cast this house, which I have consecrated for My name, out of My sight, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant that returned from captivity is there in the province enduring great affliction and reproach. Also, the wall of Jerusalem remains broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite subordinate, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they laughed at us in mockery, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Psalm 80:6

You have made us a source of contention to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass by plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.

Isaiah 43:28

Therefore, I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

Jeremiah 24:9

And I will make them a horror and an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places wherever I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and the kings and the officials, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

Jeremiah 42:18

For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: As My anger and My fury have been poured out upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will My fury be poured out upon you when you go to Egypt. And you will be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. And you shall see this place no more.

Jeremiah 51:51

We are humiliated because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the holy places of the house of the Lord.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan, as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to restore their strength. Look, O  Lord, and consider, for I am despised.

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O  Lord, what has come upon us; look, and see our reproach!

Ezekiel 22:5

Those who are near and those who are far from you shall mock you, you of infamy and much turmoil.

Ezekiel 35:12

Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are laid desolate. They are given to us to consume.”

Ezekiel 36:15

Nor will I cause men to hear in you the invectives of the nations anymore, nor shall you bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation to fall anymore, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: For good reason they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side so that you might become a possession to the rest of the nations, and you have been taken up on the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people.

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I beseech You, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain, because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

Zephaniah 3:18

I will gather those who grieve for the appointed festival, which is a reproach and burden on you.

Zechariah 8:13

And as you have been like a curse among the nations, O house of Israel and house of Judah, I will deliver you, and you will be a blessing. Fear not, and strengthen your hands!

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become a horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule among all nations where the Lord shall lead you.