Psalms 79:3

Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

4We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

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Cross References

Psalms 141:7Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.

Jeremiah 16:4Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 34:20Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

Matthew 23:35So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.

Revelation 11:9And the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will be looking on their dead bodies three days and a half, and will not let their dead bodies be put in the earth.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 79:2-6

Mournful Complaints. 1 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. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 5 How long, Lord ? wilt thou be… Read the whole commentary →

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