Psalms 74:7

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They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 25:9 : 9 He burned down the LORD’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.
  • Ps 89:39 : 39 You have repudiated your covenant with your servant; you have thrown his crown to the ground.
  • Isa 64:11 : 11 Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.
  • Lam 2:2 : 2 ב(Bet) The Lord destroyed mercilessly all the homes of Jacob’s descendants. In his anger he tore down the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its rulers.
  • Ezek 24:21 : 21 Say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary– the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire.
  • Exod 20:24 : 24 ‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.
  • Deut 12:5 : 5 But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.
  • 1 Kgs 8:20 : 20 The LORD has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the LORD God of Israel

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 74:8
    85%

    8They say to themselves,“We will oppress all of them.” They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land.

  • Ps 74:6
    83%

    6And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.

  • Ps 79:1
    78%

    1A 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.

  • Ps 74:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3Hurry to the permanent ruins, and to all the damage the enemy has done to the temple!

    4Your enemies roar in the middle of your sanctuary; they set up their battle flags.

  • Lam 2:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6ו(Vav) He destroyed his temple as if it were a vineyard; he destroyed his appointed meeting place. The LORD has made those in Zion forget both the festivals and the Sabbaths. In his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

    7ז(Zayin) The Lord rejected his altar and abhorred his temple. He handed over to the enemy her palace walls; the enemy shouted in the LORD’s temple as if it were a feast day.

  • Ps 79:7
    77%

    7For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home.

  • Isa 64:11
    77%

    11Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.

  • Ezek 23:38-39
    2 verses
    77%

    38Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.

    39On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.

  • Isa 63:18
    75%

    18For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

  • 2 Chr 36:19
    75%

    19They burned down the God’s temple and tore down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned all its fortified buildings and destroyed all its valuable items.

  • Jer 32:34
    75%

    34They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and defiled it.

  • Ezek 22:8
    75%

    8You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths!

  • 2 Chr 29:7
    74%

    7They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.

  • Ps 94:5
    74%

    5O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.

  • Ezek 7:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

    20They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, and with it they made their abominable images– their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.

    21I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

    22I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.

  • Ezek 28:18
    74%

    18By the multitude of your iniquities, through the sinfulness of your trade, you desecrated your sanctuaries. So I drew fire out from within you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth before the eyes of all who saw you.

  • Ps 73:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

    19How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

  • Lam 1:10
    73%

    10י(Yod) An enemy grabbed all her valuables. Indeed she watched in horror as Gentiles invaded her holy temple– those whom you had commanded:“They must not enter your assembly place.”

  • Ezek 43:8
    73%

    8When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them, they profaned my holy name by the abominable deeds they committed. So I consumed them in my anger.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    73%

    20then I will remove you from my land I have given you, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and I will make you an object of mockery and ridicule among all the nations.

  • Isa 37:19
    73%

    19They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • Ps 5:10
    72%

    10Condemn them, O God! May their own schemes be their downfall! Drive them away because of their many acts of insurrection, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Deut 7:5
    72%

    5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

  • Ps 69:24
    72%

    24Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!

  • Jer 7:30
    72%

    30The LORD says,“I have rejected them because the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and have defiled it.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    72%

    11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

  • Ezek 44:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate it– even my house– when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

    8You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

  • Ezek 7:24
    72%

    24I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

  • Ps 83:4
    71%

    4They say,“Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    71%

    8They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    71%

    18They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • Ps 80:16
    71%

    16It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.

  • Deut 12:3
    71%

    3You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

  • Ezek 26:12
    71%

    12They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.

  • 2 Chr 24:7
    71%

    7(Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the LORD’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)

  • Ps 139:20
    71%

    20They rebel against you and act deceitfully; your enemies lie.

  • Ps 73:9
    71%

    9They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.

  • Ezek 5:4
    71%

    4Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

  • Lam 3:66
    71%

    66Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the LORD’s heaven.

  • Ps 83:14
    70%

    14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

  • Ezek 9:7
    70%

    7He said to them,“Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

  • Lam 4:11
    70%

    11כ(Kaf) The LORD fully vented his wrath; he poured out his fierce anger. He started a fire in Zion; it consumed her foundations.

  • Ps 89:39
    70%

    39You have repudiated your covenant with your servant; you have thrown his crown to the ground.