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Psalms 79:2 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth. "
Psalms 79:2
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1 God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
3 They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
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Psalms 79:1
"God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps."
Psalms 79:3
"They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them."
Psalms 79:4
"We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us."
Psalms 79:5
"How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?"
Psalms 79:6
"Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,"
Psalms 79:7
"for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland."
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