Psalms 79:4

World English Bible (2000)

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

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  • Ps 80:6 : 6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
  • Ps 89:41 : 41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; 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 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All that pass by clap their hands at you. 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 your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; 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, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
  • Ezek 35:12 : 12 You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they have been given us to devour.
  • Ezek 36:3 : 3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
  • Ezek 36:15 : 15 neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Dan 9:16 : 16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath 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 who are around us.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you 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 made holy 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 ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?"
  • Neh 4:1-4 : 1 But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 He spoke before his brothers 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 out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?" 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall." 4 "Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us. 14 You make 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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    13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

    14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

    15 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

    16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

    17 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

  • Ps 80:6
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    6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Lam 5:1-2
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    1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

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

  • Ps 31:11
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    11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

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

  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

    4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.

  • Ps 79:12
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    12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

  • Jer 9:19
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    19 For 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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    14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • Ps 79:5
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    5 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

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

  • Job 18:3
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    3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

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

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

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

    20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, 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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    9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies.

    10 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

    11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

  • 1 Cor 4:13
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    13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

  • Jer 3:24
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    24 But the shameful thing 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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    8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Ps 74:10
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    10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

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

  • Mic 4:11
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    11 Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion."

  • Jer 14:19
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    19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck 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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    14 Moreover I will make you a desolation 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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    11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • Ps 69:7
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    7 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

  • Neh 2:17
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    17 Then I said to them, "You see the evil case 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 won't be disgraced."

  • Ezek 22:5
    71%

    5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.

  • Ps 89:50
    70%

    50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

  • Ps 90:7
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    7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

  • Ezra 9:7
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    7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for 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 plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Ps 22:7
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    7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

  • Ps 44:19
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    19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • Job 19:3
    70%

    3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

  • Mic 2:4
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    4 In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"

  • Jer 4:8
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    8 For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.