Psalms 79:1
God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
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Exodus 15:17You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, LORD, which you have made for yourself to dwell in: the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
2 Kings 24:13He carried out from there all the treasures of the LORD’s house and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the LORD’s temple, as the LORD had said.
2 Kings 25:9He burnt the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burnt every great house with fire.
2 Chronicles 36:6Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:19They burnt God’s house, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.
Psalms 74:1God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoulder 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 →