Psalms 78:2

They have given the dead bodies of thy servants 1 To be food for the birds of the sky, 1 The flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

In Context

1A Psalm for Asaph. 1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; 1 They have polluted thy holy temple; 1 They have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits. 1

3They have shed their blood as water, 1 Round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:28And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present.

Psalms 49:5Assemble ye his saints to him, 1 Those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices. 1

Isaiah 46:9and remember the former things that were of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:2-9

The Importance of Religious Instruction. 1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord , and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our… Read the whole commentary →

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