Psalms 79:1

For the end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, 1 Who guidest Joseph like a flock; 1 Thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself; 1

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Cross References

Exodus 15:17Bring them in and plant them in the mountain of their inheritance, 1 In thy prepared habitation, which thou, O Lord, hast prepared; 1 The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have made ready. 1

2 Kings 24:13And he brought forth thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and he cut up all the golden vessels which Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Kings 25:9And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every house did the captain of the guard burn.

2 Chronicles 36:6And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with brazen fetters, and carried him away to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:19And he burned the house of the Lord, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned its palaces with fire, and utterly destroyed every beautiful vessel.

Psalms 74:1For the end, Destroy not, a Psalm of a Song for Asaph. 1

Matthew Henry on Psalms 79:1

This psalm, if penned with any particular event in view, is with most probability made to refer to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and the woeful havoc made of the Jewish nation by the Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar. It is set to the same tune, as I may say, with the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and that weeping prophet borrows two verses out of it ( ver. 6, 7 ) and makes use of them in his prayer, Jer. x. 25 . Some think it was penned long before by the spirit of prophecy, prepared for the use of the… Read the whole commentary →

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