Psalms 79:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

O God, the heathen have entered into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    A psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and made Jerusalem a heap of ruins.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    A alm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on hea.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    A Psalm of Asaph. O God,{H430} the nations{H1471} are come{H935} into thine inheritance;{H5159} Thy holy{H6944} temple{H1964} have they defiled;{H2930} They have laid{H7760} Jerusalem{H3389} in heaps.{H5856}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    A Psalm{H4210} of Asaph{H623}. O God{H430}, the heathen{H1471} are come{H935}{H8804)} into thine inheritance{H5159}; thy holy{H6944} temple{H1964} have they defiled{H2930}{H8765)}; they have laid{H7760}{H8804)} Jerusalem{H3389} on heaps{H5856}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    O God, ye Heithen are fallen in to thine heretage: thy holy temple haue they defyled, and made Ierusalem an heape of stones.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    A Psalme committed to Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance: thine holy Temple haue they defiled, and made Ierusalem heapes of stones.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    A psalme of Asaph. O Lord, the heathen are come into thyne inheritaunce: they haue defiled thy holy temple, they haue made Hierusale an heape of stones

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    > God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    [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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    <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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 36:19 : 19 And they burned the house of God, and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its valuable articles.
  • Jer 26:18 : 18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
  • Lam 1:10 : 10 The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom you commanded that they should not enter into your congregation.
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
  • 2 Chr 36:17 : 17 Therefore, he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or young woman, old man, or aged; he gave them all into his hand.
  • Jer 52:13 : 13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire:
  • Exod 15:17 : 17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
  • 2 Kgs 21:12-16 : 12 Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 14 And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; 15 Because they have done what is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day. 16 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 24:13 : 13 And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
  • 2 Kgs 25:4-9 : 4 And the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around:) and the king went the way toward the plain. 5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army scattered from him. 6 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah; and they pronounced judgment on him. 7 And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon. 8 In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem: 9 And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house he burned with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.
  • 2 Chr 36:3-4 : 3 And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim, his brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz, his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 36:6-7 : 6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in chains, to carry him to Babylon. 7 Nebuchadnezzar also took some of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and placed them in his temple at Babylon.
  • Ps 74:1-4 : 1 O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture? 2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old; the rod of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed; this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt. 3 Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary. 4 Your enemies roar in the midst of Your congregations; they set up their banners for signs.
  • Ps 74:7-8 : 7 They have cast fire into Your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of Your name to the ground. 8 They said in their hearts, "Let us destroy them together": they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
  • Ps 78:71 : 71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
  • Ps 80:12-13 : 12 Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? 13 The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry with My people, I have defiled My inheritance and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; upon the elderly you have laid your yoke very heavily.
  • Jer 39:8 : 8 The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Luke 21:24 : 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • Rev 11:2 : 2 But leave out the court outside the temple, and do not measure it; for it is given to the Gentiles, and they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.
  • Ezek 7:20-21 : 20 As for the beauty of his ornaments, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein; therefore, have I set it far from them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
  • Ezek 9:7 : 7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 79:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2 The dead bodies of Your servants they have given to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

    3 Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

  • Ps 74:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7 They have cast fire into Your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.

    8 They said in their hearts, "Let us destroy them together": they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

  • Lam 1:10
    76%

    10 The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom you commanded that they should not enter into your congregation.

  • Ps 79:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 Pour out Your wrath upon the heathen who have not known You, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon Your name.

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

  • Isa 63:18
    75%

    18 The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

  • Ps 74:3
    75%

    3 Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

  • Ezek 7:21
    75%

    21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

  • Ps 94:5
    74%

    5 They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.

  • Lam 2:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 And He has violently taken away His tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: He has destroyed His places of the assembly: the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest.

    7 The Lord has cast off His altar, He has abhorred His sanctuary, He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.

  • Mic 3:12
    74%

    12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • Isa 64:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

    11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

  • Mic 4:11
    74%

    11 Now also are many nations gathered against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'

  • Lam 4:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 The LORD has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured her foundations.

    12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    72%

    11 See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

  • Ezek 7:24
    72%

    24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses; I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be defiled.

  • Jer 51:51
    72%

    51 We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces; for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

  • Jer 16:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled my land; they have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.

    19 O LORD, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

  • Joel 2:17
    72%

    17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Ps 137:7
    72%

    7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, Tear it down, tear it down, even to its foundation.

  • Jer 10:25
    72%

    25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that do not know you, and upon the families that do not call on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

  • Isa 1:7
    72%

    7 Your 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.

  • Ps 79:10
    72%

    10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of Your servants which is shed.

  • Ezek 26:12
    72%

    12 And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.

  • Jer 9:11
    72%

    11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

  • Ezek 9:7
    71%

    7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.

  • Zech 14:1
    71%

    1 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    71%

    8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Jer 17:3
    71%

    3 O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.

  • 2 Chr 36:19
    71%

    19 And they burned the house of God, and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its valuable articles.

  • Lam 2:2
    71%

    2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground: He has defiled the kingdom and its princes.

  • Isa 18:7
    71%

    7 At that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people scattered and polished, and from a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation divided and trampled under foot, whose land the rivers have ravaged, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, Mount Zion.

  • Ezek 23:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

    39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

  • Dan 9:16
    71%

    16 O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I plead with You, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain: because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all around us.

  • Joel 3:11
    71%

    11 Assemble yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together round about; cause your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD.

  • Ps 69:24
    71%

    24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.

  • Ezek 22:8
    70%

    8 You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths.

  • Isa 25:12
    70%

    12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
    70%

    14 And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

  • Jer 12:9
    70%

    9 My heritage is to Me like a speckled bird; the birds all around are against her. Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

  • Jer 2:7
    70%

    7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

  • 2 Kgs 19:17
    70%

    17 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

  • Isa 3:8
    70%

    8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

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