Psalm 79:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ O GOD, the nations have come into [the land of Your people] Your inheritance; Your sacred temple have they defiled; they have made Jerusalem heaps of ruins.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Common English Bible

¹ The nations have come into your inheritance, God! They’ve defiled your holy temple. They’ve made Jerusalem a bunch of ruins.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Unto the end. For those who will be changed. The testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

Psalm 79:1 Cross References

2 Kings 24:13

He carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord that King Solomon of Israel had made, all this as the Lord had foretold.

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their youths with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or young woman, the aged or the feeble; he gave them all into his hand.

2 Chronicles 36:19

They burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.

Psalm 50:1

The mighty one, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Psalm 78:71

from tending the nursing ewes he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel, his inheritance.

Exodus 15:17

You brought them in and planted them on the mountain of your own possession, the place, O Lord, that you made your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people took possession for a little while, but now our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth, who prophesied during the days of King Hezekiah of Judah, said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’

Jeremiah 39:8

The Chaldeans burned with fire the king’s house and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 51:51

We are put to shame, for we have heard insults; dishonor has covered our faces, for aliens have come into the holy places of the Lord’s house.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Lamentations 1:10

Enemies have stretched out their hands over all her precious things; she has even seen the nations invade her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.

Ezekiel 9:7

Then he said to them, “Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and killed in the city.

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.

Luke 21:24

they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.

Revelation 11:2

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.