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Psalms 79:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. "

Psalms 79:3

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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.

5 How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

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1 Maccabees 7:17

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"The flesh of your saints and their blood was shed all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them."

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Jeremiah 14:16

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"The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them."

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Jeremiah 25:33

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"The slain of the LORD will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the ground."

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1 Maccabees 1:37

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"They shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled the sanctuary."

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Psalms 106:38

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"They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood."

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2 Samuel 14:14

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"For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him."

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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 79:2

"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."

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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