Psalm 79:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; they have defiled thy 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

and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the Lord had foretold.

2 Chronicles 36:17

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

2 Chronicles 36:19

And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and 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 ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance.

Exodus 15:17

Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them on thy own mountain, the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thy abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy 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

Thy holy people possessed thy sanctuary a little while; our adversaries have trodden it down.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and 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 the king's house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 51:51

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

Jeremiah 52:13

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

Lamentations 1:10

The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; yea, she has seen the nations invade her sanctuary, those whom thou didst forbid to enter thy congregation.

Ezekiel 9:7

Then he said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth.” So they went forth, and smote 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 house a wooded height.

Luke 21:24

they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles 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.