Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 79:4

"We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us." — Psalms 79:4 (ASV)

This verse occurs in Psalm 44:13. It is also possibly a Maccabean psalm (see the 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 Eastern mind (see a striking description in Porter’s Giant Cities of Bashan).