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Selected Verse: Psalms 79:4 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 79:4 |
Strong Concordance |
We are become a reproach [02781] to our neighbours [07934], a scorn [03933] and derision [07047] to them that are round about [05439] us. |
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King James |
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Compare Psa 44:13; Jer 42:18; Lam 2:15). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
15 All that pass [05674] by clap [05606] their hands [03709] at thee [01870]; they hiss [08319] and wag [05128] their head [07218] at the daughter [01323] of Jerusalem [03389], saying, Is this the city [05892] that men call [0559] The perfection [03632] of beauty [03308], The joy [04885] of the whole earth [0776]?
18 For thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], the God [0430] of Israel [03478]; As mine anger [0639] and my fury [02534] hath been poured forth [05413] upon the inhabitants [03427] of Jerusalem [03389]; so shall my fury [02534] be poured forth [05413] upon you, when ye shall enter [0935] into Egypt [04714]: and ye shall be an execration [0423], and an astonishment [08047], and a curse [07045], and a reproach [02781]; and ye shall see [07200] this place [04725] no more.
13 Thou makest [07760] us a reproach [02781] to our neighbours [07934], a scorn [03933] and a derision [07047] to them that are round about [05439] us.
13 Thou makest [07760] us a reproach [02781] to our neighbours [07934], a scorn [03933] and a derision [07047] to them that are round about [05439] us.