Parallel Verses
Webster
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are 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.
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.
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 Their blood have they shed like water around Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are around us. 5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Cross References
Psalm 80:6
Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
1 Kings 9:7
Then will I cut off Israel from 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 by-word among all people:
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 wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
Psalm 44:13-14
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us.
Psalm 89:41
All that pass by the way plunder him: he is a reproach to his neighbors.
Jeremiah 24:9
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
Jeremiah 25:18
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and her kings, and her princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
Jeremiah 42:18
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury hath 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
All that 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 call the Perfection of beauty, the Joy of the whole earth?
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Ezekiel 35:12
And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
Ezekiel 36:3
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the heathen, 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 heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Daniel 9:16
O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thy 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 thy people have become a reproach to all that are about us.