Psalms 79:4

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC78:4

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

GNV

Wee are a reproche to our neighbours, euen a scorne and derision vnto them that are round about vs.

JPS

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

LXXE78:4

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

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Original-language editions

WLC

הָיִ֣ינוּ חֶ֭רְפָּה לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ לַ֥עַג וָ֝קֶ֗לֶס לִסְבִיבוֹתֵֽינוּ׃

LXX-Br78:4

Ἐγενήθημεν εἰς ὄνειδος τοῖς γείτοσιν ἡμῶν, μυκτηρισμὸς καὶ χλευασμὸς τοῖς κύκλῳ ἡμῶν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 80:6You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.
• Ezekiel 36:15I will no longer allow the taunts of the nations to be heard against you, and you will no longer endure the reproach of the peoples or cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.”
• Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
• Psalms 89:41All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
• Ezekiel 36:3therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up…
• Lamentations 2:15–16All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?” All your enemies…
• Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
• Ezekiel 35:12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’
• 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
• Daniel 9:16O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and…
• Nehemiah 4:1–4Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can…
• Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
• Jeremiah 42:18For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an…
• Jeremiah 25:18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
• Psalms 44:13–14You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
• Jeremiah 24:9I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

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