Psalm 79:7 “for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.”

Psalm 79:7

for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

World English Bible

for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

American Standard Version

For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.

Geneva Bible 1599

For they haue deuoured Iaakob and made his dwelling place desolate.

Darby Translation

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

Young's Literal Translation

For [one] hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.

Bible in Basic English

For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.

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Cross references

“For they”

Zechariah 1:15 Jeremiah 50:7 Psalm 80:13 Isaiah 9:12 Jeremiah 51:34 Jeremiah 51:35

Zechariah 1:15 · BSB

but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity. ’

Jeremiah 50:7 · BSB

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’

Psalm 80:13 · BSB

The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.

Isaiah 9:12 · BSB

Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Jeremiah 51:34 · BSB

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.

Jeremiah 51:35 · BSB

May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

“laid”

Isaiah 24:1–12 2 Chronicles 36:21 Isaiah 64:10 Isaiah 64:11

Isaiah 24:1–12 · BSB

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

2 Chronicles 36:21 · BSB

So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.

Isaiah 64:10 · BSB

Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.

Isaiah 64:11 · BSB

Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

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

In context

6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

8Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.

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