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Psalm 79:2

World English Bible

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.

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Psalm 79:2 in other translations

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Psalm 79:2 · American Standard Version

Psalm 79:2 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.
  4. 4We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
    a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.