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Psalms 79:1

AsaphJerusalem
Grief
O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

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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 hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:19

    And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

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  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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  • Psalms 74:1–4

    O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

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  • Psalms 74:7–8

    They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

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  • Jeremiah 26:18

    Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

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  • Jeremiah 52:13

    And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:3–4

    And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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