Psalms 79:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.
  • Ps 80:13 : 13 It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.
  • Isa 9:12 : 12 Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 24:1-9 : 1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions. 2 And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it. 3 The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord. 4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing. 5 The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken. 6 For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number. 7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief. 8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad. 9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it. 10 The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone. 12 In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.
  • Isa 64:10-11 : 10 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction. 11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
  • Jer 50:7 : 7 They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
  • Jer 51:34-35 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth. 35 May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say.
  • Zech 1:15 : 15 And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 10:25
    86%

    25 Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

  • Lam 2:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2 The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

    3 In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.

  • Ps 59:13
    78%

    13 Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)

  • Ps 69:24-25
    2 verses
    77%

    24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

    25 Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.

  • Ps 74:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7 They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

    8 They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.

  • Jer 25:37-38
    2 verses
    76%

    37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

    38 The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.

  • Nah 2:2
    76%

    2 A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.

  • Ps 79:1
    76%

    1 <A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

  • Ps 79:6
    75%

    6 Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.

  • Jer 2:15
    75%

    15 The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

  • Obad 1:18
    75%

    18 And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.

  • Jer 30:16
    75%

    16 For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.

  • Jer 50:7
    74%

    7 They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

  • Isa 42:24
    74%

    24 Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

  • Ps 94:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

    6 They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

  • Mic 2:2
    74%

    2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

  • Jer 5:17
    74%

    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Ps 73:19
    74%

    19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Lam 2:5
    74%

    5 The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

  • Hos 7:13
    74%

    13 May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.

  • Isa 1:7
    74%

    7 Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

  • Lam 3:66
    73%

    66 You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.

  • Ps 83:4
    73%

    4 They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.

  • Ezek 19:7
    73%

    7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.

  • Zeph 1:13
    73%

    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Jer 10:17
    73%

    17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

  • Mic 7:13
    73%

    13 But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.

  • Ps 83:12
    73%

    12 Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.

  • Gen 49:7
    73%

    7 A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

  • Isa 49:19
    73%

    19 For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

  • Ps 80:13
    73%

    13 It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

  • Lam 4:11
    73%

    11 The Lord has given full effect to his passion, he has let loose his burning wrath; he has made a fire in Zion, causing the destruction of its bases.

  • Ps 105:35
    73%

    35 And put an end to all the plants of their land, taking all the fruit of the earth for food.

  • Hab 2:8
    73%

    8 Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

  • Ezek 7:24
    72%

    24 For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean.

  • Jer 5:11
    72%

    11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

  • Jer 4:7
    72%

    7 A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

  • Hos 4:8
    72%

    8 The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

  • Ps 21:9
    72%

    9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

  • Jer 9:19
    72%

    19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • Isa 1:28
    72%

    28 But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

  • Hos 8:14
    72%

    14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

  • Amos 6:8
    72%

    8 The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.

  • Isa 64:11
    72%

    11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

  • Jer 12:11
    72%

    11 They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.