Psalms 79:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 80:6 : 6 You make us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.
  • Ps 89:41 : 41 All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
  • Jer 25:18 : 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
  • Jer 42:18 : 18 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury have been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when you shall enter into Egypt: and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads 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 your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly, this is the day we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Lam 5:1 : 1 Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; consider and behold our disgrace.
  • Ezek 35:12 : 12 And you shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given to us to consume.
  • Ezek 36:3 : 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you 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 you the shame of the nations any more, nor shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, nor shall you cause your nations to fall any more, says the Lord GOD.
  • Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I plead with You, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain: because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all around us.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will 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, Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they mocked us and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? Will you rebel against the king?
  • Neh 4:1-4 : 1 But it happened that when Sanballat heard we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spoke 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 finish in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish that are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, Even what they build, if a fox goes up, he will break down their stone wall. 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them as prey in a land of captivity:
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are around us. 14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 44:13-17
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    86%

    13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are around us.

    14You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

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

    16For the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger.

    17All this has come upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.

  • Ps 80:6
    78%

    6You make us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • Ps 89:41
    77%

    41All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.

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

  • Lam 3:45-46
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    45You have made us like refuse and scorn among the people.

    46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • Jer 51:51
    75%

    51We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces; for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

  • Lam 5:1-2
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    74%

    1Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; consider and behold our disgrace.

    2Our inheritance is given to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

  • Ps 31:11
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    11I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintances: those who saw me outside fled from me.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

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

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

  • Ps 79:12
    74%

    12And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

  • Jer 9:19
    73%

    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 our dwellings have cast us out.'

  • Lam 3:14
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    14I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day.

  • Ps 79:5
    73%

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

  • Ps 109:25
    73%

    25I also have become a reproach to them; when they look upon me, they shake their heads.

  • Job 18:3
    72%

    3Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • Lam 4:17-20
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    72%

    17As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.

    18They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.

    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

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

  • Ps 44:9-11
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    72%

    9But You have cast us off and put us to shame; and do not go forth with our armies.

    10You make us turn back from the enemy: and those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

    11You have given us like sheep appointed for food, and have scattered us among the heathen.

  • 1 Cor 4:13
    72%

    13Being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

  • Jer 3:24
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    24For shame has 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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    8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Ps 74:10
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    10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?

  • Dan 9:7
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    7O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us belongs confusion of face, as it is this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You.

  • Mic 4:11
    71%

    11Now also are many nations gathered against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'

  • Jer 14:19
    71%

    19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!

  • Ezek 5:14
    71%

    14Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending down to the earth.

  • Ps 69:7
    71%

    7Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

  • Neh 2:17
    71%

    17Then I said to them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.

  • Ezek 22:5
    71%

    5Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, who are infamous and much vexed.

  • Ps 89:50
    70%

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

  • Ps 90:7
    70%

    7For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.

  • Ezra 9:7
    70%

    7Since the days of our fathers we have been in a great trespass to this day; and because of our iniquities, we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Ps 22:7
    70%

    7All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

  • Ps 44:19
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    19Though You have severely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • Job 19:3
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    3These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.

  • Mic 2:4
    70%

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

  • Jer 4:8
    70%

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