Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.
New American Standard Bible
A scoffing and derision to those around us.
King James Version
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Holman Bible
to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule
to those around us.
International Standard Version
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.
American Standard Version
We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.
Amplified
We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],
A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.
Darby Translation
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.
Julia Smith Translation
We were a reproach to our neighbors, a derision and scorn to those being round about us.
King James 2000
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.
Modern King James verseion
We have become a shame to our neighbors, a scorn and mockery to those who are around us.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We are become an open shame unto our enemies, a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us.
NET Bible
We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.
New Heart English Bible
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
The Emphasized Bible
We have become, A reproach to our neighbours, - A mockery and a derision, to them who are round about us.
Webster
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are around us.
World English Bible
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Youngs Literal Translation
We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.
References
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 79:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Faith Amid Confusion
3 They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them. 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us. 5 How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Cross References
Psalm 80:6
Thou make us hatred to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where LORD shall lead thee away.
1 Kings 9:7
then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Nehemiah 2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, 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?
Nehemiah 4:1-4
But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
Psalm 44:13-14
Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
Psalm 89:41
All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Jeremiah 24:9
I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
Jeremiah 25:18
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of it, and the rulers of it, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day,
Jeremiah 42:18
For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth upon you when ye shall enter into Egypt. And ye shall be an execrat
Lamentations 2:15-16
All who pass by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.
Ezekiel 35:12
And thou shall know that I, LORD, have heard all thy revilings which thou have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate. They are given us to devour.
Ezekiel 36:3
therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips o
Ezekiel 36:15
Neither will I let thee hear any more the shame of the nations, nor shall thou bear the reproach of the peoples any more, nor shall thou cause thy nation to stumble any more, says lord LORD.
Daniel 9:16
O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain. Because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy peopl