Psalms 79:4

79:4 We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors;

those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. ¹ 

Psalms 44:13

44:13 You made us ²  an object of disdain to our neighbors;

those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. ³ 

Psalms 80:6

80:6 You have made our neighbors dislike us, ⁴ 

and our enemies insult us.

Psalms 89:41

89:41 All who pass by ⁵  have robbed him;

he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

Psalms 79:12

79:12 Pay back our neighbors in full! ⁶ 

May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord! ⁷ 

[79:4]  ¹ tn Heb “an [object of] taunting and [of] mockery to those around us.” See Ps 44:13.

[44:13]  ² tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).

[44:13]  ³ tn Heb “an [object of] taunting and [of] mockery to those around us.”

[80:6]  ³ tn Heb “you have made us an object of contention to our neighbors.”

[89:41]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the passersby on the road.”

[79:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “Return to our neighbors sevenfold into their lap.” The number seven is used rhetorically to express the thorough nature of the action. For other rhetorical/figurative uses of the Hebrew phrase שִׁבְעָתַיִם (shiv’atayim, “seven times”) see Gen 4:15, 24; Ps 12:6; Prov 6:31; Isa 30:26.

[79:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord.”