Psalm 79:1

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

2 Kings 24:13

He brought out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the implements of gold in the temple of the Lord, which Solomon king of Israel had made, just as the Lord had spoken.

2 Chronicles 36:17

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans from Babylon, who killed their young men with the sword at the house of their sanctuary. He did not spare a young man or virgin, old or aged. God gave all of them into his hand.

2 Chronicles 36:19

So they burned down the house of God, tore down the wall of Jerusalem, burned down all the palaces with fire, and destroyed all the precious items.

Psalm 50:1

The Mighty One, God the Lord, has spoken and summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Psalm 78:71

from following the nursing ewes He brought him to shepherd Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

Exodus 15:17

You shall bring them in, and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance, in the place, O  Lord, which You have made for Your dwelling, in the sanctuary, O  Lord, which Your hands have established.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with My people; I have polluted My inheritance and given them into your hand. You did not show them mercy; on the aged you have laid your yoke very heavily.

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for 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 spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’

Jeremiah 39:8

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

Jeremiah 51:51

We are humiliated because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the holy places of the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 52:13

and burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Even all the large houses, he burned with fire.

Lamentations 1:10

The adversary has spread his hand over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom You commanded not to enter Your congregation.

Ezekiel 9:7

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

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will be mounds of ruins, and the mountain of the house will become wooded heights.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be led away captive to all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Revelation 11:2

But exclude the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will trample on the Holy City for forty-two months.