Psalms 79 · Verse 4

Psalms 79:4

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 79:4, King James Version

Psalms 79:4 in other translations

BSBWe have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
WEBWe have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
ASVWe are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.
YLTWe have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.
DARBYWe are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.
BBEWe are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.
WebsterWe have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are around us.

What does Psalms 79:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. (Compare Psa 44:13; Jr 42:18; La 2:15).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbors - The Idumeans, Philistines, Phoenicians, Ammonites, and Moabites, all gloried in the subjugation of this people; and their insults to them were mixed with blasphemies against God.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 79:1-5

God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. God's own people defiled it by their sins, therefore he suffered their enemies to defile it by their insolence. They desired that God would be reconciled. Those who desire God's favour as better than life, cannot but dread…

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Psalms 79:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הָיִ֣ינוּha.Yi.nuwe have becomeH1961
חֶ֭רְפָּהCher.paha reproachH2781
לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּlish.khe.Nei.nuto neighbors ourH7934
לַ֥עַגLa.'agmockeryH3933
וָ֝קֶ֗לֶסva.Ke.lesand derisionH7047
לִסְבִיבוֹתֵֽינוּ\׃lis.vi.vo.Tei.nuto [those] around usH5439

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 79:4

  • Psalms 80:6

    Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • Ezekiel 36:15

    Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God.

  • Psalms 89:41

    All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

  • Lamentations 5:1

    Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

  • Psalms 44:13-14

    Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

  • Daniel 9:16

    O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

  • Jeremiah 25:18

    To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

  • Jeremiah 24:9

    And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

  • 1 Kings 9:7

    Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

  • Ezekiel 36:3

    Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

  • Deuteronomy 28:37

    And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.

  • Nehemiah 2:19

    But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
become.
44:13,14; 80:6; 89:41; De 28:37; Jer 24:9; 25:18; 42:18; La 2:15,16
La 5:1; Eze 35:12; 36:3,15
scorn.
1Ki 9:7; Ne 2:19; 4:1-4

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Context

  • Psalms 79:3

    Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

  • Psalms 79:4

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

  • Psalms 79:5

    How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Read all of Psalms 79

Psalms 79:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Somos afrentados de nuestros vecinos, escarnecidos y burlados de los que están en nuestros alrededores.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Nous avons été en opprobre à nos voisins, en risée et en raillerie auprès de nos alentours.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wir sind ein Hohn geworden unseren Nachbarn, ein Spott und Schimpf denen, die uns umgeben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Deus, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, et salvi erimus.