Psalm 79:4

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Summary

Psalm 79:4

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

Become

Scorn

1 Kings 9:7

Nehemiah 2:19

Nehemiah 4:1

General references

Psalm 74:10

Lamentations 3:14

Bible References

Become

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to those that are round about us.

Thou dost make us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at us among themselves.

All that pass by the way spoil him; he is a reproach to his neighbours.

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD shall carry thee away.

And I give them to be removed, for evil unto all the kingdoms of the earth, for infamy, and for reproach and for a proverb, and for a curse unto all the places where I shall drive them.

unto Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah and to its kings and to its princes, that I might place them into desolation, into astonishment, and into hissing, and into a curse, as this day,

For thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: As my anger and my fury have been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my fury be poured forth upon you when ye shall enter into Egypt, and ye shall be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

Samech All that passed by clapped their hands over thee and whistled and wagged their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; look, and behold our reproach.

And thou shalt know that I, the LORD, have heard all thy injuries which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.

therefore prophesy and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people;

Scorn

I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them, and this house, which I have sanctified unto my name, I will cast out of my sight, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples;

But when Sanballat, the Horonite, and Tobiah, the slave, the Ammonite, and Geshem, the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn and despised us and said, What is this thing that ye do? Will ye rebel against the king?

But it came to pass that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was wroth and took great indignation and mocked the Jews.

General references

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

He I was a derision to all my people and their song every day.