Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Makest

Psalm 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to those around us.
Psalm 80:6
You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalm 89:51
With which Your enemies have reproached, O Lord,
With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.
Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.
Ezekiel 36:19
Also I scattered them among the nations and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.

Scorn

Psalm 123:3
Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,
For we are greatly filled with contempt.
Jeremiah 48:27
Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.

General references

Psalm 89:50
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants;
How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples,
Lamentations 3:14
I have become a laughingstock to all my people,
Their mocking song all the day.