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Psalms 79:4 — King James Version← Study notes

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.


Psalms 79:4Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 79:46 words
HebrewMeaning
הָיִ֣ינוּhāyiynw
we have becomeverbH1961
altogether · be · accomplished · committed ···
חֶ֭רְפָּהḥerəpāh
a reproachnounH2781
reproach · shame
לִ/שְׁכֵנֵ֑י/נוּlišəkēnēynw
to neighbors ourpronH7934
neighbour · nigh
לַ֥עַגlaʿag
mockerynounH3933
scorn
וָ֝/קֶ֗לֶסwāqeles
and derisionconjH7047
לִ/סְבִיבוֹתֵֽי/נוּlisəbiybwōtēynw
to those around uspronH5439
round) about · circuit · compass · on every side
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 79:4

1. Over the title of this Psalm, being so short and so simple, I think we need not tarry. But the prophecy which here we read sent before, we know to be evidently fulfilled. For when these things were being sung in the times of King David, nothing of such sort, by the hostility of the Gentiles, as yet had befallen the city Jerusalem, nor the Temple of God, which as yet was not even built. For that after the death of David his son Salomon made a temple to God, who is ignorant?…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 79 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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