Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
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

We have become an object of reproach
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.

A Conservative Version

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about 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

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Faith Amid Confusion

3 They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them. 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to those around us.
5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?


Cross References

Psalm 80:6

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

Deuteronomy 28:37

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

1 Kings 9:7

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;

Nehemiah 2:19

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?

Nehemiah 4:1-4

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.

Psalm 44:13-14

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

Psalm 89:41

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

Jeremiah 24:9

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.

Jeremiah 25:18

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,

Jeremiah 42:18

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.

Lamentations 2:15-16

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?

Lamentations 5:1

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

Ezekiel 35:12

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.

Ezekiel 36:3

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;

Ezekiel 36:15

Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the Gentiles any longer, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shalt thou cause the sons of thy inhabitants to die any longer, saith the Lord GOD.

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and all thy people is given in reproach to all that are about us.

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