Psalm 79:1

Faith Amid Confusion

¹ O God, the nations have come into thine inheritance. They have defiled thy holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. ² They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy sanctified to the beasts of the earth.

Holy Temple

O God

Asaph

Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 36:19

And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces of it with fire, and destroyed all the good vessels of it.

Jeremiah 26:18

Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of

Micah 3:12

Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Exodus 15:17

Thou will bring them in, and plant them on the mountain of thine inheritance, the place, O LORD, which thou have made for thee to dwell in, the sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed. He gave them all into his

Jeremiah 52:13

And he burned the house of LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Even every great house, he burned with fire.

2 Kings 21:12-16

therefore thus says LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.

2 Kings 24:13

And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of LORD, as LORD had said.

2 Kings 25:4-10

Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about), and [the king] went by t

2 Chronicles 36:3-4

And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Chronicles 36:6-7

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.

Psalm 74:1-4

O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Psalm 74:7-8

They have set thy sanctuary on fire. They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.

Psalm 78:71

He brought him from following the ewes that have their young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

Psalm 80:12-13

Why have thou broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into thy hand. Thou showed them no mercy. Upon the aged thou have laid thy yoke very heavily.

Jeremiah 39:8

And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 7:20-21

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty, but they made the images of their abominations, [and] their detestable things in it. Therefore I have made it as an unclean thing to them.

Ezekiel 9:7

And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go ye forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city.

Luke 21:24

And they will fall by the jaw of the sword, and will be led away captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Revelation 11:2

And leave out the court outside the temple, and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations. And they will trample the holy city forty-two months.