Psalm 79:3 “They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and…”

Psalm 79:3

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

Geneva Bible 1599

Their blood haue they shead like waters rounde about Ierusalem, and there was none to burie them.

Darby Translation

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [them].

Young's Literal Translation

They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

Bible in Basic English

Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

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Cross references

“Their”

Psalm 79:10 Matthew 23:35 Romans 8:36 Revelation 16:6 Revelation 17:6 Revelation 18:24

Psalm 79:10 · BSB

Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

Matthew 23:35 · BSB

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Romans 8:36 · BSB

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Revelation 16:6 · BSB

For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”

Revelation 17:6 · BSB

I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.

Revelation 18:24 · BSB

And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.

“and there, etc.”

Jeremiah 14:16 Jeremiah 16:4 Revelation 11:9 Psalm 141:7 Jeremiah 15:3 Jeremiah 25:33

Jeremiah 14:16 · BSB

And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own ev…

Jeremiah 16:4 · BSB

“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air an…

Revelation 11:9 · BSB

For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.

Psalm 141:7 · BSB

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Jeremiah 15:3 · BSB

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 25:33 · BSB

Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

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