We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Psalms 79:4 in context
Psalms 79:1–7
1
God, the nations have come into your inheritance.
They have defiled your holy temple.
They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
2
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,
the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
3
They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.
There was no one to bury them.
4
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We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
5
How long, LORD?
Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
6
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,
on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
7
for they have devoured Jacob,
and destroyed his homeland.
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