Psalms 79:1

The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

2 They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
KJV
O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
WEB
God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
ASV
O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
DARBY
{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
BLB
A Psalm of Asaph. <span class=|reftext|><a href=|#|><b>1</b></a> O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
ÅB
En salme av Asaf. Gud! Hedninger har trengt inn i din arv, de har gjort ditt hellige tempel urent, de har gjort Jerusalem til grushoper.
OTB
Gud, folkene har invadert din arv;
De har vanhelliget ditt hellige tempel;
De har lagt Jerusalem i ruiner.
B1930
En salme av Asaf. Gud! Hedninger har trengt inn i din arv, de har gjort ditt hellige tempel urent, de har gjort Jerusalem til grushoper.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Lamentations 1:10

    The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:19

    Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

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  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

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  • Psalms 74:1–4

    Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

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  • Psalms 74:7–8

    They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.

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  • Jeremiah 26:18

    “Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’

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  • Jeremiah 52:13

    He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:3–4

    And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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