We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
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We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
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We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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We are become a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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Passages linked to Psalms 79:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 80:6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
- Psalms 89:41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
- Lamentations 5:1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
- Ezekiel 36:15 “I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
- Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
- 1 Kings 9:7 then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
- Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, 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?”
- Nehemiah 4:1-4 But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews. 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?” 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.” “Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
- Psalms 44:13-14 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us. You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
- Jeremiah 24:9 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 will drive them.
- Jeremiah 25:18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;
- Jeremiah 42:18 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’
- Lamentations 2:15-16 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’?” All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
- Ezekiel 35:12 You will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given us to devour.’
- Ezekiel 36:3 therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “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;”
- Daniel 9:16 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.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 4 We have been a reproach to our neighbors.…
4 We have been a reproach to our neighbors. Here another complaint is uttered, to excite the mercy of God. The more proudly the ungodly mock and triumph over us, the more confidently may we expect that our deliverance is near; for God will not bear with their insolence when it breaks forth so audaciously; especially when it redounds to the reproach of his holy name: even as it is said in Isaiah,
“This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him, The virgin, the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed; and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.” (Isaiah 37:22, 23)
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And assuredly their neighbors, who were partly apostates, or the degenerate children of Abraham, and partly the avowed enemies of religion, when they molested and reproached this miserable people, did not refrain from blaspheming God. Let us, therefore, remember that the faithful do not here complain of the derision with which they were treated as individuals, but of that which they saw to be indirectly levelled against God and his law. We shall again meet with a similar complaint in the concluding part of the psalm.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Whereof some came of Abraham but were degenerate: and…
Whereof some came of Abraham but were degenerate: and others were open enemies to thy religion, but they both laughed at our miseries.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 79:4 We are become a reproach to our…
Psa 79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Ver. 4. We are become a reproach to our neighbours] To the Edomites, Philistines, Syrians, Tyrians, &c., who do now compose comedies out of our tragedies.
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A scorn and derision to them that are round about us] Quorum opprobriis, ludibriis, et contumeliis sumus expositi. This was more grievous to them than stripes or wounds, saith Chrysostom; because these being inflicted upon the body, are divided after a sort between soul and body; but scorns and reproaches do wound the soul only. Habet quendam aculeum contumelia, they leave a sting behind them, as Cicero observeth, Actio in Ver.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain We, who were their terror and scourge, are now…
We, who were their terror and scourge, are now neither feared nor pitied, but become the matter of their scoffs and reproaches. See Psa 80:6; 137:7; Eze 35:2,12, &c.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain We are become a reproach to our neighbours,.... That…
We are become a reproach to our neighbours,.... That is, those that remained; so the Jews were to the Edomites, especially at the time of the Babylonish captivity, Psa 137:7,
a scorn and derision to them that are round about us; as the Christians in all ages have been to the men of the world, and especially will be insulted and triumphed over when the witnesses are slain, Rev 11:10.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. We are become a reproach to our…
Verse 4. We are become a reproach to our neighbours] 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.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 79:4. We are become a reproach, &c. —…
Psa 79:4. We are become a reproach, &c. — We, who were the terror of our neighbours, and whom they stood in awe of, and were afraid to offend, are now neither feared nor pitied, but are become the objects of their scoffs and reproaches. For they study to abuse us and load us with contempt, upbraiding us with our sins and sufferings, and giving the lie to our relation to God, and expectations from him. If God’s professing people degenerate from what themselves and their fathers were, they must expect to be told of it; and it is well if a just reproach will help to bring them to a true repentance. But it has been the lot of the gospel Israel to be unjustly made a reproach and derision. The apostles and evangelists themselves, who were the wisest and best men that ever lived, and the greatest friends and benefactors of the human race, were counted as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain We are become a reproach to our neighbours -…
We are become a reproach to our neighbours - See the language in this verse explained in the notes at Psa 44:13. The words in the Hebrew are the same, and the one seems to have been copied from the other.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. We are become a reproach… scorn… derision—This is…
4. We are become a reproach… scorn… derision—This is not the least ingredient in the punishment of sin, (see Psa_44:12-16,) and is here urged to induce God to interfere in mercy, as the reproach was also on his name.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. A repetition of Psa_44:13, with the change of…
4. A repetition of Psa_44:13, with the change of ‘thou makest us’ to ‘we are become.’ Cp. Psa_80:6; Eze_22:4; Eze_25:6 ff. Dan_9:16 combines this verse with Psa_79:8 a.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) This verse occurs Psa_44:13. Also possibly a Maccabæan…
(4) This verse occurs Psa_44:13. Also possibly a Maccabæan psalm. (See Introduction to that psalm.)
The scenes still witnessed by travellers at the Jews’ wailing-place offer a striking illustration of the foregoing verses, showing, as they do, how deep-seated is the love of an ancient place in the Oriental mind. (See a striking description in Porter’s Giant Cities of Bashan.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain We are become a reproach to our neighbours. (comp.…
We are become a reproach to our neighbours. (comp. Psa_44:13 Lam_2:15 Lam_5:1) The "neighbours" intended are the nations in the vicinity of the Holy Land the Syrians, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, etc. Their attitude towards Israel under the circumstances may be gathered from what is related of the Edomites in Psa_137:7. A scorn and derision to them that are round about us. It was not so much the "reproaches" of their enemies that vexed and grieved Israel, as the jeers and scoffs which they heard on every side. (comp. Lam_1:7, 20 2:15 3:62, 63)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 4. "We are become a reproach to our…
Ver. 4. "We are become a reproach to our neighbours." Those who have escaped the common foe make a mockery of us, they fling our disasters into our face, and ask us, "Where is your God?" Pity should be shown to the afflicted, but in too many cases it is not so, for a hard logic argues that those who suffer more than ordinary calamities must have been extraordinary sinners. Neighbours especially are often the reverse of neighbourly; the nearer they dwell the less they sympathize. It is most pitiable it should be so.
"A scorn and a derision to them that are round about us." To find mirth in others' miseries, and to exult over the ills of others, is worthy only of the devil and of those whose father he is. Thus the case is stated before the Lord, and it is a very deplorable one. Asaph was an excellent advocate, for he gave a telling description of calamities which were under his own eyes, and in which he sympathized, but we have a mightier Intercessor above, who never ceases to urge our suit before the eternal throne.
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Ver. 4. "We are become a reproach." If God's professing people degenerate from what themselves and their fathers were, they must expect to be told of it; and it is well if a just reproach will help to bring us to a true repentance. But it has been the lot of the gospel Israel to be made unjustly a reproach and derision; the apostles themselves were "counted as the off scouring of all things." Matthew Henry.
Ver. 4. "A scorn and derision to them that are round about us." This was more grievous to them than stripes or wounds, saith Chrysostom, because these being inflicted upon the body are divided after a sort betwixt soul and body, but scorns and reproaches do wound the soul only. Habet quendam aculeum contumelia, they leave a sting behind them, as Cicero observeth. John Trapp.
Ver. 4. It is the height of reproach a father casts upon his child when he commands his slave to beat him. Of all outward judgments this is the sorest, to have strangers rule over us, as being made up of shame and cruelty. If once the heathen come into God's inheritance, no wonder the church complains that she is "become a reproach to her neighbours, a shame and derision to all round about her." Abraham Wright.
Ver. 4. Saints the subject of derision to sinners. When justly so. When unjustly. What do they see to excite ridicule; what shall we do under the trial; how will it end?
Psalms 79:5*
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 We have become a reproach for our neighbors, mocking…
We have become a reproach for our neighbors, mocking and derision to those who are around us
The words "reproach," "mocking," and "derision" are metonyms for those whom others reproach, mock, and deride. AT: "We have become people whom our neighbors reproach; those around us mock and deride us" (See: Metonymy)
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We have become
The pronoun "We" refers to God's people.
derision
strong laughter to shame a person
How long will your jealous anger burn like fire?
This can be translated as a statement. AT: "It seems as though your jealous anger will never stop burning like fire." (See: Rhetorical Question)
will your jealous anger burn
The abstract noun "anger" can be stated as "angry." AT: "will you be jealous and angry" (See: Abstract Nouns)
burn like fire
This simile compares the expression of God's anger to a fire that destroys things. AT: "destroy us" (See: Simile and Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
translationWords
reproach
neighbor
mock
Yahweh
anger
eternity
jealous
fire
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