Psalms 79:7

World English Bible (2000)

For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

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  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
  • Ps 80:13 : 13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
  • Isa 9:12 : 12 The Syrians in front, 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, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. 2 It will 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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest. 3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. 5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. 9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. 12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
  • Isa 64:10-11 : 10 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
  • Jer 50:7 : 7 All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, 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, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
  • Zech 1:15 : 15 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity."

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    25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

  • Lam 2:2-3
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    78%

    2The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations 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 profaned the kingdom and its princes.

    3He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

  • Ps 59:13
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    13Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

  • Ps 69:24-25
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    24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

    25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

  • Ps 74:7-8
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    7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

    8They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

  • Jer 25:37-38
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    37The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

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  • Nah 2:2
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    2For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

  • Ps 79:1
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    1God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

  • Ps 79:6
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    6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;

  • Jer 2:15
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    15The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • Obad 1:18
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    18The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

  • Jer 30:16
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    16Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.

  • Jer 50:7
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    7All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.

  • Isa 42:24
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    24Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

  • Ps 94:5-6
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    5They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.

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  • Mic 2:2
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    2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Jer 5:17
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    17They 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 beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • Lam 2:5
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    5The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

  • Hos 7:13
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    13Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

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  • Lam 3:66
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    66You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

  • Ps 83:4
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    7He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.

  • Jer 10:17
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    17Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.

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    13Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

  • Ps 83:12
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    12who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."

  • Gen 49:7
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    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
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    19"For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you shall be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

  • Ps 80:13
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    13The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

  • Lam 4:11
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    11Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.

  • Ps 105:35
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  • Hab 2:8
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  • Ezek 7:24
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    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me," says Yahweh.

  • Jer 4:7
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    11They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.