Psalms 79:7

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
  • Ps 80:13 : 13 The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
  • Isa 9:12 : 12 the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 24:1-9 : 1 Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. 3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
  • Isa 64:10-11 : 10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
  • Jer 50:7 : 7 All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.
  • Jer 51:34-35 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed [ me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
  • Zech 1:15 : 15 And I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 10:25
    86%

    25Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

  • Lam 2:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

    3He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

  • Ps 59:13
    78%

    13Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more: And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, Unto the ends of the earth. {{Selah

  • Ps 69:24-25
    2 verses
    77%

    24Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

    25Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents.

  • Ps 74:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name [by casting it] to the ground.

    8They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

  • Jer 25:37-38
    2 verses
    76%

    37And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

    38He hath left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

  • Nah 2:2
    76%

    2For Jehovah restoreth the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.

  • Ps 79:1
    76%

    1[A Psalm of Asaph]. O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

  • Ps 79:6
    75%

    6Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.

  • Jer 2:15
    75%

    15The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • Obad 1:18
    75%

    18And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it.

  • Jer 30:16
    75%

    16Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

  • Jer 50:7
    74%

    7All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.

  • Isa 42:24
    74%

    24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his law.

  • Ps 94:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.

    6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

  • Mic 2:2
    74%

    2And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Jer 5:17
    74%

    17And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall beat down thy fortified cities, wherein thou trustest, with the sword.

  • Ps 73:19
    74%

    19How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • Lam 2:5
    74%

    5The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

  • Hos 7:13
    74%

    13Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • Isa 1:7
    74%

    7Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

  • Lam 3:66
    73%

    66Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

  • Ps 83:4
    73%

    4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

  • Ezek 19:7
    73%

    7And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • Zeph 1:13
    73%

    13And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.

  • Jer 10:17
    73%

    17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege.

  • Mic 7:13
    73%

    13Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

  • Ps 83:12
    73%

    12Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God.

  • Gen 49:7
    73%

    7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.

  • Isa 49:19
    73%

    19For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

  • Ps 80:13
    73%

    13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.

  • Lam 4:11
    73%

    11Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.

  • Ps 105:35
    73%

    35And did eat up every herb in their land, And did eat up the fruit of their ground.

  • Hab 2:8
    73%

    8Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

  • Ezek 7:24
    72%

    24Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.

  • Jer 5:11
    72%

    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.

  • Jer 4:7
    72%

    7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • Hos 4:8
    72%

    8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Ps 21:9
    72%

    9Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.

  • Jer 9:19
    72%

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  • Isa 1:28
    72%

    28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.

  • Hos 8:14
    72%

    14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.

  • Amos 6:8
    72%

    8The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. [

  • Isa 64:11
    72%

    11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

  • Jer 12:11
    72%

    11They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.