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 poured out 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, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy burn like fire?


Cross References

Psalm 80:6

You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard it, they mocked us and despised us and said, “What is this thing you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Nehemiah 4:1-4

Now it came about that when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious and very angry and mocked the Jews.

Psalm 44:13-14

You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

Psalm 89:41

All who pass along the way plunder him;
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;

Jeremiah 42:18

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.”

Lamentations 2:15-16

All who pass along the way
Clap their hands in derision at you;
They hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
The perfection of beauty,
A joy to all the earth’?”

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
Look, and see our reproach!

Ezekiel 35:12

Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘They are laid desolate; they are given to us for food.’

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people.”’”

Ezekiel 36:15

“I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to stumble any longer,” declares the Lord God.’”

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.

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