4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.
4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
4 We're nothing but a joke to our neighbors, graffiti scrawled on the city walls.
4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are around us.
4 We are mocked by our neighbors, an object of scorn and derision to those around us.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 79:4
Commentary on Psalm 79:1-5
(Read Psalm 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.