Psalms 79:4 · KJV
“We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.”
— Psalms 79:4
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and {there was} none to bury {them}.
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 79 — Context
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given {to be} meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and {there was} none to bury {them}.
4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
5How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Cross References
Psalms 80:6
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Psalms 89:41
All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
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.
Psalms 44:13-14
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
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 unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and {are} an infamy of the people: {Because: Heb. Because for because} {are...: or, ye are made to come up on the lip of the tongue}
Nehemiah 4:1-4
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.