World English Bible
Psalms 79:4
“We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.”
Verse in context — Psalms 79
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
Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
5
How long, Yahweh? 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;
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