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Psalms 79:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us. "

Psalms 79:4

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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 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,

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"The slaughter of our kindred, the captivity of the land, and the desolation of our inheritance, he will bring on our heads among the Gentiles, wherever we will be in bondage. We will be an offense and a reproach to those who take us for a possession."

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"Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty according to all the iniquities of our fathers who departed from the Lord our God."

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Nehemiah 4:4

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"“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity."

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Nehemiah 2:17

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"Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”"

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Psalms 79:1

"God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps."

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."

Psalms 79:3

"They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them."

Psalms 79:5

"How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?"

Psalms 79:6

"Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,"

Psalms 79:7

"for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland."

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