Psalms 79:7
5 How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
8 Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
- KJV
- For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
- WEB
- for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
- ASV
- For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.
- DARBY
- For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
- BLB
- For they have devoured Jacob, and his habitation they have made desolate.
- ÅB
- For de har fortært Jakob og lagt hans bolig øde.
- OTB
- For de har fortært Jakob
Og brakt ødeleggelse til hans bolig. - B1930
- For de har fortært Jakob og lagt hans bolig øde.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 51:34–35
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
Read in contextZechariah 1:15
but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
Read in contextIsaiah 64:10–11
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
Read in contextIsaiah 24:1–12
Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
Read in contextJeremiah 50:7
All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
Read in contextPsalms 80:13
The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
Read in context2 Chronicles 36:21
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
Read in contextIsaiah 9:12
Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
Read in context