Psalms 79:3
before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
In Context
4Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
Cross References
Psalms 141:7Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I.
Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and famine; and there shall be none to bury them: their wives also, and their sons, and their daughters shall die thus; and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
Jeremiah 16:4They shall die of grievous death; they shall not be lamented, nor buried; they shall be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for the birds of the sky: they shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine.
Jeremiah 34:20which the king of Babylon took not, when he carried Jechonias prisoner out of Jerusalem,
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 →