A moment in scripture
Psalms 79:4
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We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 79:2
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.
- Psalms 79:3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
- Psalms 79:5
How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- Psalms 79:6
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.