Psalms 79:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

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  • Ps 80:6 : 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
  • Ps 89:41 : 41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
  • Jer 24:9 : 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.
  • Jer 25:18 : 18 To wit, usalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
  • Jer 42:18 : 18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of usalem; 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.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All that pass by cp 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? 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth 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 LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
  • Ezek 35:12 : 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.
  • Ezek 36:3 : 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:
  • Ezek 36:15 : 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.
  • Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine 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 are become a reproach to all that are about us.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
  • 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 people:
  • 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 builded 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 do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stos out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burd? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their sto wall. 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

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  • Ps 44:13-17
    5 verses
    86%

    13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

    14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

    15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

    16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

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

  • 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • 41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

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

  • Lam 3:45-46
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    45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

    46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

  • Lam 5:1-2
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    1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

    2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

  • 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

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

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

    4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

  • 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

  • 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

  • 14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

  • 5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

  • 25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

  • 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

  • Lam 4:17-20
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    72%

    17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

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

    19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they id wait for us in the wilderness.

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

  • Ps 44:9-11
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    9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

    10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

    11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

  • 13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

  • 24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • 8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

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

  • 7 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this y; to the men of Juh, 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.

  • 11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

  • 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

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

  • 11 They have now compassed us in our ste: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

  • 7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

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

  • 5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

  • 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

  • 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

  • 7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass 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 a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

  • 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

  • 4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

  • 8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.