Psalms 79:3
Round about Jerusalem they have poured out their blood like water; and there was no one to bury them.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
In Context
4On every side our neighbors revile us and mock us and jeer at us.
Cross References
Psalms 141:7Like stones on a country road cleft and broken so lie our bones scattered for Death to devour.
Matthew 23:35so that on your heads may fall every drop of innocent blood spilt on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel down to that of Zechariah, Barachiah’s son, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
Revelation 11:9People of all nations, and tribes, and languages, and races look at their dead bodies for three days and a half, and do not allow them to be laid in a grave.
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 →