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Psalm 79:1

World English Bible

God, the nations have come into your inheritance.
They have defiled your holy temple.
They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

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Psalm 79:1 in other translations

O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Psalm 79:1 · American Standard Version

Psalm 79:1 in context

  1. 1God, the nations have come into your inheritance.
    They have defiled your holy temple.
    They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
  2. 2They 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. 3They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.
    There was no one to bury them.