Psalm 79:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

God, some people from other nations came to fight your people. They ruined your holy Temple. They left Jerusalem in ruins.

Cross References

Micah 3:12

Leaders, because of you, Zion will be destroyed. It will become a plowed field. Jerusalem will become a pile of rocks. Temple Mount will be an empty hill overgrown with bushes.

2 Chronicles 36:19

Nebuchadnezzar and his army burned the Temple. They broke down Jerusalem’s wall and burned all the houses that belonged to the king and his officials. They took or destroyed every valuable thing in Jerusalem.

Lamentations 1:10

The enemy stretched out his hand. He took all her nice things. In fact, she saw the foreign nations go inside her Temple. And you said those people could not join in our assembly!

Jeremiah 26:18

They said, “Micah the prophet was from the city of Moresheth. He was a prophet during the time that Hezekiah was king of Judah. Micah said this to all the people of Judah: ‘This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: Zion will be destroyed. It will become a plowed field. Jerusalem will become a pile of rocks. Temple Mount will be an empty hill overgrown with bushes.’ Micah 3:12

Jeremiah 52:13

Nebuzaradan burned the Lord’s Temple, the king’s palace, and every important building in Jerusalem, as well as all the houses.

Psalm 78:71

He took him away from the job of caring for sheep and gave him the job of caring for the descendants of Jacob—Israel, his chosen people.

2 Chronicles 36:17

So God brought the king of Babylon to attack the people of Judah and Jerusalem. The king of Babylon killed the young men even when they were in the Temple. He didn’t have mercy on the people of Judah and Jerusalem. The king of Babylon killed young and old people. He killed men and women. He killed sick and healthy people. God permitted Nebuchadnezzar to punish the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Kings 24:13

Nebuchadnezzar took from Jerusalem all the treasures in the Lord’s Temple and all the treasures in the king’s palace. He cut up all the golden dishes that King Solomon of Israel had put in the Lord’s Temple. This happened just as the Lord had said.

Exodus 15:17

You will lead your people to your own mountain. You will let them live by the place that you, Lord, prepared as your home. It is the Temple, Lord, that you yourself built.

Revelation 11:2

But don’t measure the yard outside the temple. Leave it alone. It has been given to those who are not God’s people. They will show their power over the holy city for 42 months.

Luke 21:24

Some of the people will be killed by soldiers. Others will be made prisoners and taken to all the different countries. The holy city of Jerusalem will be under the control of foreigners until their time is completed.

Ezekiel 9:7

He said to them, “Make this Temple unclean—fill this courtyard with dead bodies! Now go!” So they went and killed the people in the city.

Jeremiah 39:8

The army of Babylon set fire to the king’s palace and the houses of the people of Jerusalem. And they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 47:6

“I was angry with my people. They were mine, but I turned against them. I let you punish them, but you showed them no mercy. Even for those who were old you made the work hard.

Psalm 50:1

The Lord God Most Powerful has spoken. He calls to everyone on earth, from where the sun rises to where it sets.

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people had their land only a short time. Then our enemies trampled down your holy Temple.

Jeremiah 51:51

“We people of Judah are ashamed. We have been insulted, because strangers have gone into the holy places of the Lord’s Temple.”