We have become a reproach to our (A)neighbors,
A scorn and derision to those who are around us.

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We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
    of scorn(A) and derision to those around us.(B)

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You have made us a strife to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.

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You have made us an object of derision[a] to our neighbors,
    and our enemies mock us.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 80:6 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text contention

I will deliver them to (A)trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, (B)to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

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I will make them abhorrent(A) and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword,(B) a curse[a](C) and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish(D) them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 24:9 That is, their names will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that they are cursed.