Psalms 79:4

American Standard Version (1901)

We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.

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  • Ps 80:6 : 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.
  • Ps 89:41 : 41 All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
  • Jer 25:18 : 18 [ to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
  • Jer 42:18 : 18 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As mine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath 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.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 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 called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Lam 5:1 : 1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
  • Ezek 35:12 : 12 And thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, have heard all thy revilings which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.
  • Ezek 36:3 : 3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
  • Ezek 36:15 : 15 neither will I let thee hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nation to stumble any more, saith the Lord Jehovah.
  • Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, 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 are become a reproach to all that are round about us.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 then will I cut off Israel out of 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 byword among all peoples.
  • Neh 2:19 : 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?
  • Neh 4:1-4 : 1 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. 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall. 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

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  • Ps 44:13-17
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    13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.

    14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

    15All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me,

    16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger.

    17All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

  • Ps 80:6
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    6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • Ps 89:41
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    41All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • Neh 4:4
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    4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

  • Lam 3:45-46
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    45Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

    46All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

  • Jer 51:51
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    51We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.

  • Lam 5:1-2
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    1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

    2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

  • Ps 31:11
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    11Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

    4Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.

  • Ps 79:12
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    12And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

  • Jer 9:19
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    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  • Lam 3:14
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    14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • Ps 79:5
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    5How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

  • Ps 109:25
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    25I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.

  • Job 18:3
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    3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

  • Lam 4:17-20
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    17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

    18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

    19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

    20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

  • Ps 44:9-11
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    9But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.

    10Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.

    11Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.

  • 1 Cor 4:13
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    13being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

  • Jer 3:24
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    24But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

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    10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

  • Dan 9:7
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    7O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see [our desire] upon Zion.

  • Jer 14:19
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    19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

  • Ezek 5:14
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    14Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.

  • Ps 69:7
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    7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face.

  • Neh 2:17
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    17Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

  • Ezek 22:5
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    5Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou infamous one [and] full of tumult.

  • Ps 89:50
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    50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples,

  • Ps 90:7
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    7For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.

  • Ezra 9:7
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    7Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Ps 22:7
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    7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying] ,

  • Ps 44:19
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    19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

  • Job 19:3
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    3These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

  • Mic 2:4
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    4In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove [it] from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.

  • Jer 4:8
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    8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.