Psalms 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
What it says
God's people have become a reproach and mockery to their neighbors.
What it is doing
This verse shows that the disaster has both physical and social-spiritual dimensions.
In context
1A Psalm of Asaph. 2They have given the corpses of Your servants 3They have poured out their blood like water 4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, 5How long, O LORD? 6Pour out Your wrath on the nations 7for they have devoured Jacob 8Do not hold past sins against us; 9Help us, O God of our salvation, 10Why should the nations ask, 11May the groans of the captives reach You; 12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors 13Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,