4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
Psalms 79:4
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Psalms 44:12–14
12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale. 13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. 14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Lamentations 3:44–46
44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through. 45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. 46 All our enemies open their mouths against us.
Psalms 80:5–7
5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears. 6 You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us. 7 Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
Lamentations 3:13–15
13 He pierced my kidneys with His arrows. 14 I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long. 15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Psalms 109:24–26
24 My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt. 25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads. 26 Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.
Prayer of Azariah 1:9–11
9 And thou didst deliver us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful forsakers of God, and to an unjust king, and the most wicked in all the world. (KJV) 10 And now we cannot open our mouths, we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants; and to them that wor… (KJV)
Greek Daniel 3:32–34
32 You delivered us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful rebels, and to an unjust king who is the most wicked in all the world. (WEB) 33 And now we can’t open our mouth. Shame and reproach have come on your servants and those who worship you. (WEB) 34 Don’t utterly deliv… (WEB)
Nehemiah 4:3–5
3 Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!” 4 Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as… 5 …
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