Psalms 79:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

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  • Ps 80:6 : 6 Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.
  • Ps 89:41 : 41 Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.
  • Jer 25:18 : 18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as `at' this day.
  • Jer 42:18 : 18 for thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: As poured out hath been Mine anger and My fury on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so poured out is My fury upon you in your entering Egypt, and ye have been for an execration, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach, and ye do not see any more this place.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed -- and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: `Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?' 16 Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed `her' up, Surely this `is' the day that we looked for, We have found -- we have seen.'
  • Lam 5:1 : 1 Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
  • Ezek 35:12 : 12 And thou hast known that I -- Jehovah, I have heard all thy despisings that thou hast spoken Against mountains of Israel, saying: A desolation, to us they were given for food.
  • Ezek 36:3 : 3 therefore, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because, of desolating, And of swallowing you up from round about, For your being a possession to the remnant of the nations, And ye are taken up on the tip of the tongue, And `are' an evil report of the people.
  • Ezek 36:15 : 15 And I proclaim not unto thee any more the shame of the nations, And the reproach of peoples thou bearest no more, And thy nations stumble not any more, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'
  • Dan 9:16 : 16 `O Lord, according to all Thy righteous acts, let turn back, I pray Thee, Thine anger and Thy fury from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mount, for by our sins, and by the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people `are' for a reproach to all our neighbours;
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples;
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, `What `is' this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'
  • Neh 4:1-4 : 1 And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard that we are building the wall, that it is displeasing to him, and he is very angry and mocketh at the Jews, 2 and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What `are' the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? -- and they burnt!' 3 And Tobiah the Ammonite `is' by him and saith, `Also, that which they are building -- if a fox doth go up, then it hath broken down their stone wall.' 4 Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders. 14 Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.

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  • Ps 44:13-17
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    13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.

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

    15All the day my confusion `is' before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.

    16Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.

    17All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.

  • Ps 80:6
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    6Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.

  • Ps 89:41
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    41Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,

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

  • Lam 3:45-46
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    45Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.

    46Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.

  • Jer 51:51
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    51We have been ashamed, for we heard reproach, Covered hath shame our faces, For come in have strangers, against the sanctuaries of the house of Jehovah.

  • Lam 5:1-2
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    1Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

    2Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

  • Ps 31:11
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    11Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without -- fled from me.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,

    4Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!

  • Ps 79:12
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    12And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.

  • Jer 9:19
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    19For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.

  • Lam 3:14
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    14I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.

  • Ps 79:5
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    5Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

  • Ps 109:25
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    25And I -- I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.

  • Job 18:3
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    3Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

  • Lam 4:17-20
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    17While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation `that' saveth not.

    18They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.

    19Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned `after' us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.

    20The breath of our nostrils -- the anointed of Jehovah, Hath been captured in their pits, of whom we said: `In his shadow we do live among nations.'

  • Ps 44:9-11
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    9In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.

    10Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.

    11Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.

  • 1 Cor 4:13
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    13being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become -- of all things an offscouring -- till now.

  • Jer 3:24
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    24And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8and the wrath of Jehovah is on Judah and Jerusalem, and He giveth them for a trembling, for an astonishment, and for a hissing, as ye are seeing with your eyes.

  • Ps 74:10
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    10Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?

  • Dan 9:7
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    7`To Thee, O Lord, `is' the righteousness, and to us the shame 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, in all the lands whither Thou hast driven them, in their trespass that they have trespassed against Thee.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11And now, gathered against thee have been many nations, who are saying: `Let her be defiled, and our eyes look on Zion.'

  • Jer 14:19
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    19Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.

  • Ezek 5:14
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    14And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that `are' round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

  • Ps 69:7
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    7For because of Thee I have borne reproach, Shame hath covered my face.

  • Neh 2:17
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    17and I say unto them, `Ye are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem `is' waste, and its gates have been burnt with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not any more a reproach.'

  • Ezek 22:5
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    5The near and the far-off from thee scoff at thee, O defiled of name -- abounding in trouble.

  • Ps 89:50
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    50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples,

  • Ps 90:7
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    7For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

  • Ezra 9:7
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    7`From the days of our fathers we `are' in great guilt unto this day, and in our iniquities we have been given -- we, our kings, our priests -- into the hand of the kings of the lands, with sword, with captivity, and with spoiling, and with shame of face, as `at' this day.

  • Ps 22:7
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    7All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip -- shake the head,

  • Ps 44:19
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    19But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

  • Job 19:3
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    3These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me --

  • Mic 2:4
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    4In that day doth `one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.

  • Jer 4:8
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    8For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.