Psalm 79:1

New Century Version

God, nations have come against your chosen people. They have ruined your holy Temple. They have turned Jerusalem into ruins.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:13

Nebuchadnezzar took all the treasures from the Temple of the Lord and from the palace. He cut up all the gold objects Solomon king of Israel had made for the Temple of the Lord. This happened as the Lord had said it would.

2 Chronicles 36:17

So God brought the king of Babylon to attack them. The king killed the young men even when they were in the Temple. He had no mercy on the young men or women, the old men or those who were sick. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar.

2 Chronicles 36:19

Nebuchadnezzar and his army set fire to God’s Temple and broke down Jerusalem’s wall and burned all the palaces. They took or destroyed every valuable thing in Jerusalem.

Psalm 50:1

The God of gods, the Lord, speaks. He calls the earth from the rising to the setting sun.

Psalm 78:71

He brought him from tending the sheep so he could lead the flock, the people of Jacob, his own people, the people of Israel.

Exodus 15:17

You will lead your people and place them on your very own mountain, the place that you, Lord, made for yourself to live, the temple, Lord, that your hands have made.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, so I rejected those who belonged to me. I gave them to you, but you showed them no mercy. You even made the old people work very hard.

Isaiah 63:18

Your people had your Temple for a while, but now our enemies have walked on your holy place and crushed it.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah, from the city of Moresheth, was a prophet during the time Hezekiah was king of Judah. Micah said to all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: Jerusalem will be plowed like a field. It will become a pile of rocks, and the hill where the Temple stands will be covered with bushes.’

Jeremiah 39:8

The Babylonians set fire to the palace and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 51:51

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

Jeremiah 52:13

Nebuzaradan set fire to the Temple of the Lord, the palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every important building was burned.

Lamentations 1:10

The enemy reached out and took all her precious things. She even saw foreigners enter her Temple. The Lord had commanded foreigners never to enter the meeting place of his people.

Ezekiel 9:7

Then he said to the men, “Make the Temple unclean, and fill the courtyards with those who have been killed. Go out!” So the men went out and killed the people in the city.

Micah 3:12

Because of you, Jerusalem will be plowed like a field. The city will become a pile of rocks, and the hill on which the Temple stands will be covered with bushes.

Luke 21:24

They will be killed by the sword and taken as prisoners to all nations. Jerusalem will be crushed by non-Jewish people until their time is over.

Revelation 11:2

But do not measure the yard outside the temple. Leave it alone, because it has been given to those who are not God’s people. And they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.