Psalms 79:4

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We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

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  • Ps 80:6 : 6 You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us.
  • Ps 89:41 : 41 All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.
  • Jer 25:18 : 18 I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case!
  • Jer 42:18 : 18 For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem. You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse. You will never see this place again.’
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 ס(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem.“Ha! Is this the city they called‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?” 16 פ(Pe) All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said,“We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!”
  • Lam 5:1 : 1 The People of Jerusalem Pray: O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.
  • Ezek 35:12 : 12 Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying,“They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”
  • Ezek 36:3 : 3 So prophesy and say:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip and slander among the people,
  • Ezek 36:15 : 15 I will no longer subject you to the nations’ insults; no longer will you bear the shame of the peoples, and no longer will you bereave your nation, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
  • Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, according to all your justice, please turn your raging anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the LORD will drive you.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said,“What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
  • Neh 4:1-4 : 1 Opposition to the Work Continues(3:33) Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall he became angry and was quite upset. He derided the Jews, 2 and in the presence of his colleagues and the army of Samaria he said,“What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they be left to themselves? Will they again offer sacrifice? Will they finish this in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones to life again from piles of dust?” 3 Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was close by, said,“If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!” 4 Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. 14 You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.

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    13You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

    14You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.

    15All day long I feel humiliated and am overwhelmed with shame,

    16before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me.

    17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.

  • Ps 80:6
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    6You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us.

  • Ps 89:41
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    41All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

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    4Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

  • Lam 3:45-46
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    45You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.

    46פ(Pe) All our enemies have gloated over us;

  • Jer 51:51
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    51‘We are ashamed because we have been insulted. Our faces show our disgrace. For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the LORD’s temple.’

  • Lam 5:1-2
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    1The People of Jerusalem Pray: O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

    2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

  • Ps 31:11
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    11Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.

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    3They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.

    4We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.

  • Ps 79:12
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    12Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

  • Jer 9:19
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    19For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion,‘We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For we have left our land! For our houses have been torn down!’”

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    14I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.

  • Ps 79:5
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    5How long will this go on, O LORD? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?

  • Ps 109:25
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    25I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.

  • Job 18:3
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    3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

  • Lam 4:17-20
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    17ע(Ayin)The People of Jerusalem Lament: Our eyes continually failed us as we looked in vain for help. From our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not rescue us.

    18צ(Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!

    19ק(Qof) Those who pursued us were swifter than eagles in the sky. They chased us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.

    20ר(Resh) Our very life breath– the LORD’s anointed king– was caught in their traps, of whom we thought,“Under his protection we will survive among the nations.”

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    9But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies.

    10You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.

    11You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.

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    13when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

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    24From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal, has taken away all that our ancestors worked for. It has taken away our flocks and our herds, and even our sons and daughters.

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    8The LORD was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

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    10How long, O God, will the adversary hurl insults? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

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    7“You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day– the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

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    11Many nations have now assembled against you. They say,“Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!”

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    19Then I said,“LORD, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror.

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    14“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

  • Ps 69:7
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    7For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.

  • Neh 2:17
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    17Then I said to them,“You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue.”

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    5Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation, full of turmoil.

  • Ps 89:50
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    50Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!

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    7Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.

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    7From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment– right up to the present time.

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    7All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

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    19Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

  • Job 19:3
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    3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

  • Mic 2:4
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    4In that day people will sing this taunt song to you– they will mock you with this lament:‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’

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    8So put on sackcloth! Mourn and wail, saying,‘The fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us!’”