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Psalms 79:4

Shame

2 They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

5 How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
KJV
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
WEB
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
ASV
We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.
DARBY
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.
BLB
We have become a reproach for our neighbors, a mocking and derision for those around us.
ÅB
Vi er blitt til skam for våre naboer, til spott og hån for dem som er omkring oss.
OTB
Vi har blitt en skam for våre naboer,
Et objekt for hån og spott for dem rundt oss.
B1930
Vi er blitt til skam for våre naboer, til spott og hån for dem som er omkring oss.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 80:6

    You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

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  • Ezekiel 36:15

    I will no longer allow the taunts of the nations to be heard against you, and you will no longer endure the reproach of the peoples or cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.”

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  • Psalms 89:41

    All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

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  • Lamentations 5:1

    Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

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  • Psalms 44:13–14

    You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

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  • Daniel 9:16

    O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.

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  • Jeremiah 25:18

    to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;

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  • Jeremiah 24:9

    I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

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