Psalms 79:7

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

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For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

In Context

6Pour out your wrath upon the heathen that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon your name.

8O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

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Cross References

Psalms 80:13The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.

Isaiah 24:1Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 51:34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a dragon, he has filled his belly with my delicates, he has cast me out.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 79:7-13

Petitions for Succor and Relief; Petitions for Deliverance. 6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. 8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. 10 Wherefore should the… Read the whole commentary →

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