“We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.”
Psalms 79:4 (KJV) |
Psalms 79:4
From Psalms 79, in the Book of Psalms (Old Testament).
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2
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
5
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
6
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.