Psalms 79:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

This verse occurs Psalms 44:13. Also possibly a Maccabæan psalm. (See Introduction to that psalm.)

The scenes still witnessed by travellers at the Jews’ wailing-place offer a striking illustration of the foregoing verses, showing, as they do, how deep-seated is the love of an ancient place in the Oriental mind. (See a striking description in Porter’s Giant Cities of Bashan.)

Psalms 79:4

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