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Psalm 79:4

New American Bible - revised edition

We have become the reproach of our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.

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You have fed them the bread of tears, made them drink tears in great measure.

Lord, in keeping with all your just deeds, let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. On account of our sins and the crimes of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become the reproach of all our neighbors.

I will no longer make you listen to the reproach of nations. You will never again endure insults from the peoples. Never again shall you rob your nation of its children—oracle of the Lord God. Regeneration of the People.

therefore prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: because you have been ridiculed and hounded on all sides for becoming a possession for the remaining nations and have become a byword and a popular jeer,

then you shall know that I am the Lord. I have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying: They are desolate; they have been given to us to devour.

Remember, Lord, what has happened to us, pay attention, and see our disgrace:

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Just as my furious wrath was poured out upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my anger be poured out on you when you reach Egypt. You shall become a malediction and a horror, a curse and a reproach, and you shall never see this place again.

to Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a ruin and a waste, an object of hissing and cursing, as they are today;

I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all the places to which I will drive them.

You broke down all city walls, left his strongholds in ruins.

When they heard about this, Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab mocked and ridiculed us. “What are you doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them and repudiate the house I have consecrated for my name. Israel shall become a proverb and a byword among all nations,

and you will be a horror, a byword, a taunt among all the peoples to which the Lord will drive you. Fruitless Labors.

They answered me: “The survivors of the captivity there in the province are in great distress and under reproach. The wall of Jerusalem has been breached, its gates gutted by fire.”

Till I repudiated the holy princes, put Jacob under the ban, exposed Israel to scorn.

We are ashamed because we have heard taunts, disgrace covers our faces; strangers have entered sanctuaries in the Lord’s house.

All her people groan, searching for bread; They give their precious things for food, to retain the breath of life. “Look, O Lord, and pay attention to how I have been demeaned!

Those near and those far off will mock you: “Defiled of Name! Queen of Tumult!”

as on festival days. I will remove disaster from among you, so that no one may recount your disgrace.

Just as you became a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you that you may be a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.




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