Our bones are scattered at the mouth of She’ol, As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth.
Psalm 79:3 - The Scriptures 2009 They have poured out their blood Like water all around Yerushalayim, With no one to bury them. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Their blood they have poured out like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them. American Standard Version (1901) Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them. Common English Bible They’ve poured out the blood of the faithful like water all around Jerusalem, and there’s no one left to bury them. Catholic Public Domain Version in the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Awaken your power and draw near, so as to accomplish our salvation. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us. |
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of She’ol, As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth.
Why should the nations say, “Where is their Elohim?” Let the vengeance of the outpoured blood of Your servants Be known among the nations, Before our eyes.
And the people to whom they are prophesying shall be thrown out in the streets of Yerushalayim because of the scarcity of food and the sword, with no one to bury them – them nor their wives, their sons nor their daughters. For I shall pour their evil on them.’
“And I shall appoint over them four kinds,” declares יהוה, “the sword to kill, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
“They shall die of deaths from diseases, they shall not be lamented nor be buried, but be like dung on the face of the earth, and be consumed by sword and by scarcity of food. And their corpses shall be meat for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.”
“And in that day the slain of יהוה shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried, for they are dung on the face of the ground.
And I shall give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their corpses shall be for food to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth.
“And I shall bring distress on men, and they shall walk like blind men – because they have sinned against יהוה, and their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.”
so that on you should come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Heḇel to the blood of Zeḵaryah, son of Bereḵyah, whom you murdered between the Dwelling Place and the slaughter-place.
As it has been written, “For Your sake we are killed all day long, we are reckoned as sheep of slaughter.”
and some of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their dead bodies for three and a half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be placed into tombs,
“Because they have shed the blood of set-apart ones and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. For they deserve it.”
And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the set-apart ones, and with the blood of the witnesses of יהושע. And having seen her, I marvelled – greatly marvelled!
“And in her was found the blood of prophets and set-apart ones, and of all who were slain on the earth.”