Psalms 79:1

Heathen, O God, have come into your land, defiling your holy temple, and laying Jerusalem in ruins.

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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

2They have given the bodies of your dead servants to the birds of the air to devour, and the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the field.

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Cross References

Psalms 74:1Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath against the sheep of your pasture?

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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