Psalms 74:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁלְח֣וּ בָ֭אֵשׁ מִקְדָּשֶׁ֑ךָ לָ֝אָ֗רֶץ חִלְּל֥וּ מִֽשְׁכַּן־שְׁמֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

Shilchu va'esh miqdashecha, to ha'arets chillelu mishkan-shemecha.

Grammar Details

*Shilchu*: piel perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they sent/cast'
*va'esh*: preposition + definite article + feminine singular noun - 'into the fire'
*miqdashecha*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your sanctuary'
*la'arets*: preposition + definite article + feminine singular noun - 'to the ground'
*chillelu*: piel perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they profaned/defiled'
*mishkan-shemecha*: construct phrase with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'dwelling place of your name'

Word Meanings

*Shilchu*: they cast/sent/set
*miqdashecha*: your sanctuary/holy place
*chillelu*: they profaned/defiled/polluted
*mishkan-shemecha*: dwelling place of your name/tabernacle of your name

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 25:9 : 9 And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
Ps 89:39 : 39 Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
Isa 64:11 : 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
Lam 2:2 : 2 The 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.
Ezek 24:21 : 21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.
Matt 22:7 : 7 But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Exod 20:24 : 24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in every place where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.
Deut 12:5 : 5 But unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come;
1 Kgs 8:20 : 20 And Jehovah hath established his word that he spake; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and have built the house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 74:8
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8They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Ps 74:6
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6And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
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1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
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3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
4Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.
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6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
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7For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.
Isa 64:11
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11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
Ezek 23:38-39
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38Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
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Isa 63:18
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18Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
2 Chr 36:19
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19And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
Jer 32:34
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34But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
Ezek 22:8
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2 Chr 29:7
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20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.
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Ezek 28:18
74%
18By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold you.
Ps 73:18-19
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73%
18Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
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2 Chr 7:20
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2 Chr 20:8
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2 Kgs 19:18
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Deut 12:3
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Ezek 26:12
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2 Chr 24:7
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Ps 139:20
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Ps 73:9
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