Psalm 79:4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.

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Psalm 22:7
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Psalm 39:8
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Psalm 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Psalm 80:6
You make us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalm 89:41
All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbors.

Psalm 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

Lamentations 1:7
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

Daniel 9:16
O LORD, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your fury 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 are become a reproach to all that are about us.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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 his wrath as worse than death. In every affliction we should first beseech the Lord to cleanse away the guilt of our sins; then he will visit us with his tender mercies.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4. (Compare Ps 44:13; Jer 42:18; La 2:15).