Psalm 79:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Their blood they have poured out like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

Common English Bible

³ 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

³ 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

³ before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

Psalm 79:3 Cross References

Psalm 141:7

Like a rock that one breaks apart and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes.

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword. There shall be no one to bury them—themselves, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—for I will pour out their wickedness upon them.”

Jeremiah 15:3

And I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall become like dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall become food for the birds of the air and for the wild animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 25:33

Those slain by the Lord on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented or gathered or buried; they shall become dung on the surface of the ground.

Jeremiah 34:20

shall be handed over to their enemies and to those who seek their lives. Their corpses shall become food for the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring such distress upon people that they shall walk like the blind; because they have sinned against the Lord, their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

Matthew 23:35

so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Romans 8:36

As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Revelation 11:9

For three and a half days members of the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,

Revelation 16:6

because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!”

Revelation 17:6

And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.

Revelation 18:24

And in you was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slaughtered on earth.”