Psalm 79:7

Translations

Modern

…for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

Traditional

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

Literal

For they have devoured Jacob, and his habitation they have made desolate.

Latin

…quia comederunt Jacob, et locum ejus desolaverunt.

Original

Hebrew

English

…for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

Notes

Psalms 79:5–8

The intensity of God’s judgment surprises the people; they cry out in despair for compassion, forgiveness, and relief. Verse 6–7 are nearly identical to Jeremiah 10:25.

Psalms 79:1–13

This lament describes the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC. Israel’s early history of rebellion, described in Psalm 78, angered God. As a result, Zion was destroyed. The temple was defiled, and the bodies of the dead lay across the land.

The psalmist then prays for forgiveness and rescue (Psalm 79:8–9) and asks God to repay the nation's enemies (Psalm 79:12–13). Other psalms lamenting the exile include Psalms 42–44, 102, 107, 126, and 137.

Related verses

Jeremiah 51:34–35
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
Zechariah 1:15
…but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
Jeremiah 50:7
All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
Isaiah 24:1–12
Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
Isaiah 64:10–11
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
Psalm 80:13
The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
2 Chronicles 36:21
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.
Isaiah 9:12
Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Parallels

Psalm 74:1–23 Jeremiah 52:1–11

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Asaph Imprecatory Psalms Mercy Music Psalms, Book of

Topics

The Jews: Denunciations Against Those Who: Slaughtered

Psalm 79:7

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