Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around 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.
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.
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 poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [them]. 4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us. 5 How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Cross References
Psalm 80:6
You have made us [an object of] strife to our neighbors, and our enemies mock among themselves.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there.
1 Kings 9:7
then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, [even] the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.
Nehemiah 2:19
But Sanballat the Horonite, the Ammonite servant Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard it, and they mocked and despised us, saying, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"
Nehemiah 4:1-4
Now it happened when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, [he] became angry and greatly provoked, and he mocked the Jews.
Psalm 44:13-14
You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.
Psalm 89:41
All passing along [the] road plunder him; he has become a taunt to his neighbors.
Jeremiah 24:9
And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them.
Jeremiah 25:18
Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and its kings, [and] its officials, to make them a site of ruins, a horror, an [object of] hissing, and a curse, as [it is] this day;
Jeremiah 42:18
For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will pour out on you at your going [to] Egypt, and you will become a curse, and a horror, and a curse [formula], and a disgrace, and you will no longer see this place." '
Lamentations 2:15-16
They clap hands over you, all who pass along the way; they hiss and they shake their head, at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which it is said, "A perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?"
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Yahweh, what has become of us; take note, and see our disgrace!
Ezekiel 35:12
And you will know that I, Yahweh, I have heard all of your contemptible words that you said against the mountains of Israel, {saying}, 'They will be desolate; they are given to us as food.'
Ezekiel 36:3
Therefore prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{Because indeed} {when you were desolate}, then they crushed you from all around, so that you became a possession to the remainder of the nations, and you became {a byword and object of slander for the people}."
Ezekiel 36:15
"And I will not let you hear [any] longer the insult of the nations, and [the] disgrace of [the] peoples you will not bear [any] longer; you [yourself] will not cause your nation to stumble," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.'"
Daniel 9:16
Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your rage turn away from your city Jerusalem, {your holy mountain}, because through our sins and through the iniquities of our ancestors Jerusalem and your people have become an object of mockery among all of our neighbors.