Psalms 79:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
  • Ps 80:13 : 13 The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.
  • Isa 9:12 : 12 The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; and they will 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, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants. 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 lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly plundered, for the LORD has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the proud people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down; every house is shut up, that no one may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
  • Isa 64:10-11 : 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.
  • Jer 50:7 : 7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
  • Jer 51:34-35 : 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me up like a monster, he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has thrown me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
  • Zech 1:15 : 15 And I am very displeased with the nations at ease; for I was a little angry, and they helped forward the affliction.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 10:25
    86%

    25Pour 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.

  • Lam 2:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2The 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.

    3He has cut off in His fierce anger all the strength of Israel: He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy, and He burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

  • Ps 59:13
    78%

    13Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may be no more; and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.

  • Ps 69:24-25
    2 verses
    77%

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

    25Let their dwelling place be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents.

  • Ps 74:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

  • Jer 25:37-38
    2 verses
    76%

    37And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

    38He has forsaken His shelter, like a lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of His fierce anger.

  • Nah 2:2
    76%

    2For the LORD has turned away the grandeur of Jacob, as the grandeur of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and ruined their vine branches.

  • Ps 79:1
    76%

    1O God, the heathen have entered into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

  • Ps 79:6
    75%

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

  • Jer 2:15
    75%

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

  • Obad 1:18
    75%

    18The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall kindle them and devour them, and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.

  • Jer 30:16
    75%

    16Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall become plunder, and all who prey upon you I will give for 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 the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

  • Isa 42:24
    74%

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

  • Ps 94:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

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

    6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • Mic 2:2
    74%

    2They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Jer 5:17
    74%

    17And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

  • Ps 73:19
    74%

    19How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • Lam 2:5
    74%

    5The Lord was like an enemy: He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces: He has destroyed His strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

  • Hos 7:13
    74%

    13Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed 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%

    66Pursue and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

  • 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 remembered no more.

  • Ezek 19:7
    73%

    7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; the land was desolate, with all its fullness, by the noise of his roaring.

  • Zeph 1:13
    73%

    13Therefore their goods shall become plunder, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine from them.

  • Jer 10:17
    73%

    17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

  • Mic 7:13
    73%

    13Yet the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

  • Ps 83:12
    73%

    12Who said, Let us take for ourselves the houses of God in possession.

  • 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 your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

  • Ps 80:13
    73%

    13The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

  • Lam 4:11
    73%

    11The 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.

  • Ps 105:35
    73%

    35And ate up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

  • Hab 2:8
    73%

    8Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein.

  • Ezek 7:24
    72%

    24Therefore 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 5:11
    72%

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

  • Jer 4:7
    72%

    7The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  • Hos 4:8
    72%

    8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

  • Ps 21:9
    72%

    9You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall consume 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 our dwellings have cast us out.'

  • Isa 1:28
    72%

    28And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

  • Hos 8:14
    72%

    14For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.

  • Amos 6:8
    72%

    8The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

  • Isa 64:11
    72%

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

  • Jer 12:11
    72%

    11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.